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Article: Imagination in history.(Practicing New Historicism & Hamlet in Purgatory)(Book Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 2003
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Practicing New Historicism By Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000
Hamlet in Purgatory By Stephen Greenblatt Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001
"History," the word, is Greek in origin; it derives from historia, a term whose primary meaning is "inquiry." At its root, it names an intellectual process, not its subject matter or its final result. But it can also mean the knowledge obtained through investigation or study, an account of one's inquiries, or a narrative of events, past or present. Arguably the title of Herodotus's famous book, The Histories, conveys all these ...