Four Shakespearean Period Pieces
by Margreta De Grazia
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In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Anachronisms, previously condemned as errors in the order of time, are being hailed as alternatives to that order. Conversely chronology and periods, its mainstays, are now charged with having distorted the past they have been entrusted to represent, and secularization, once considered the driving force of the show more modern era, no longer holds sway over the past or the present. In light of this reappraisal, can Shakespeare studies continue unshaken? This is the question this book takes up, devoting a chapter to each term: on the rise of anachronism, the chronologizing of the canon, the staging of plays 'in period,' and the use of Shakespeare in modernity's secularizing project. show lessTags
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Margreta de Grazia is emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus and "Hamlet" without Hamlet.
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