Download or read book Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory written by Neema Parvini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism. And yet, it remains notoriously difficult to pin down, define and explain, let alone analyze. Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of new historicism as a development in Shakespeare studies while asking fundamental questions about its status as literary theory and its continued usefulness as a method of approaching Shakespeare's plays.