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Article: Shakespeare after Theory & Practicing New Historicism.(Review)

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Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 250 pp. $25. ISBN: 0-226-27934-0.

David Scott Kastan, Shakespeare after Theory

New York and London: Routledge, 1999. 264 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-415-90112-X (cl), 0-415-90013-8 (pbk).

Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt, Practicing New Historicism

Each of these two quite different books aims to redress problems in prior historicisms and to emphasize the virtues of particularities as opposed to abstractions; each also does some of what it inveighs against.

David Kastan's collection of essays, Shakespeare after Theory, embraces the conceptual gains of New Historicism ...

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