The Modernist Shakespeare

This is a major study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era. Hugh Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century Modernist text by redirecting `new historicist' methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare criticism itself. The book spans the rise of professional criticism in the Victorian age right through to the Postmodernist Shakespearean criticism of contemporary feminists, deconstructors, and `new historicists'.