Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings

O'Rourke, James

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“…Grady, however, in James O'Rourke's introduction points out that the emergence of presentism in Shakespeare studies is much eye-catching and appealing to the modern readers of Shakespeare and Grady includes feminism , cultural materialism, and post-colonial criticism within the periphery of 'presentist methodologies' (O'Rourke,2012). In what follows the study will explore the present text Twelfth Night from feminist point of view for which it is preferable to cast a net over the background of feminist readings of Shakespeare before going to the main discussion.…”

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A Historicist and Presentist interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Shahidullah

Manaf

2019

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Historicism and Presentism are two recent, mostly discussed phenomena in the area of Shakespearean studies. While historicists like Stephen Greenblatt argues that historicism pursues historical aspects to explain a text and keeps away present-day political, social and cultural affairs to avoid the misunderstanding of it, the presentists like Terence Hawkes advocates that Presentism offers an unending dialogue between present and past, which is deeply rooted to the present. In addition, Presentism is the re-evaluation of the historical facts upon which our early modern understanding depends. Therefore, Presentism could be an excellent idea to interpret the appropriacy of early modern literature, especially Shakespeare’s oeuvre. This paper, however, elucidates Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces, from both historicist and presentist points of view, which looks especially at the way Shakespeare views gender while applying these both approaches. This article also clarifies the reasons for selecting this text for explicating Shakespeare from these two approaches. Finally, this study advocates for combining these two approaches, which might offer a better way to understand Shakespeare’s works and to make him more relevant today.

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Section: Twelfth Night From Presentist Perspectivementioning

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A Historicist and Presentist interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Shahidullah

Manaf

2019

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“…Although all of these critical approaches are, to a certain extent, testament to a decentring of new historicism in the field of Shakespeare studies, as James L. O'Rourke suggests, “the swerve from formalism to new historicism that took place in English and American literary studies a generation ago has never been reversed or even seriously compromised” (2). Literary scholars continue to be interested in understanding how people engaged with time in Shakespeare's own time.…”

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Shakespeare, Time, Theory

Lewis

2014

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This article charts the range of ways in which literary scholars from the 1960s to the present day have approached Shakespeare's dramatic works through considerations of time. Time in the plays, as both subject matter (narrative theme) and as a key element of dramatic form (time scheme) has, with varying intensity, been a popular consideration in the field of Shakespeare criticism since the middle of the twentieth century. Time or temporality are also, however, important ordering principles for the majority of the theoretical approaches to early modern literary culture that have dominated modes of enquiry into Shakespeare's works in this period. This article considers the ways in which scholars' conceptualisations of time and the temporal in the plays have both shaped and been shaped by the increased popularity of critical temporal studies across the humanities, and more specifically by the range of theoretical frameworks – historicism, cultural materialism, new historicism, new materialism, presentism, new formalism, cognitivism – which have, to differing degrees, transformed the field of Shakespeare criticism over the last 50 years.

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Shakespeare and the Poetics and Politics of Relevance: An Introduction

Callaghan,

Chiari

2024

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

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Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings

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A Historicist and Presentist interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

A Historicist and Presentist interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Shakespeare, Time, Theory

Shakespeare and the Poetics and Politics of Relevance: An Introduction

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