Shakespeare and the Question of Culture Early

Shakespeare and the Question of Culture addresses the central issue of "culture" in early modern studies through both literary history and disciplinary critique. Bruster argues that the "culture" that critics investigate through the works of Shakespeare and other writers is largely a literary culture, and he examines what this necessary limitation of the scope of "cultural studies" means for the discipline of early modern studies.

Douglas Bruster is Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare, Quoting Shakespeare, and textual editor of The Changeling for The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton.

Acknowledgments

ix

A Note on Texts

xi

Series Editor's Foreword

xiii

Preface

xv

Part I Shakespeare and Culture

Shakespeare and the Question of Culture

3

(26)

Deep Focus: Toward the Thin Description of Literary Culture

29

(36)

Part II Early Modern Literary Culture

The Structural Transformation of Print in Late Elizabethan England

65

(30)

The Dramatic Life of Objects in the Early Modern Theater

95

(24)

Female-Female Eroticism and the Early Modern Stage

119

(28)

Part III Critical Culture

Shakespeare and the End of History: Period as Brand Name

147

(20)

Shakespeare and the Composite Text: The New Formalism

167

(24)

The New Materialism in Early Modern Studies

191

(16)

Conclusion: Shakespeare after the ``Cultural Turn''

207

(4)

Appendix: ``Culture''

211

(6)

Notes

217

(54)

Index

271

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Shakespeare and the Question of Culture Early Modern Literature and the Cultural Turn

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