Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England

First edition. x, 206pp. In black cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine. 8vo. Boards just a little rubbed at edges. Small stain on text block fore edge. There are some annotations on the rear paste down endpaper. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped at edges. Greenblatt has been at the centre of the new historicism, a method of literary interpretation that situates cultural creation in history. This is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this method - he asks how collective beliefs and experiences are shaped and offered for public consumption on the stage through Shakespeare's plays.