What Was Shakespeare? : : Renaissance Plays and Changing Critical Practice / / Edward Pechter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Pechter, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: After “After the Carnival” --; 1. What Was Shakespeare? --; 2. The Rise and Fall of the New Historicism --; 3. Of Ants and Grasshoppers: Two Ways (or More) to Link Texts and Power --; 4. Teaching Differences --; 5. In Defense ofJargon: Criticism as a Social Practice --; 6. Against “Ideology” --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501738883; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501738883
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edward Pechter.

What was Shakespeare? For Edward Pechter, the question does not concern the time-worn mystery of identity—whether the Bard was the glover's son from Stratford or the Earl of Oxford or any of the other pretenders. Instead, Pechter examines how our talk about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has changed since the 1960s. Viewing today's critical scene with affectionate humor and dauntless penetration, Pechter assesses the problems, the disagreements, the disruptions, and the continuities that have accompanied the reign of poststructuralism.