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Practicing New Historicism
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Practicing New Historicism

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  • Stephen Greenblatt

    In Practicing New Historicism (2000), Greenblatt and coauthor Catherine Gallagher mounted a rigorous defense of New Historicism in response to charges that it lacked definition, casting it as an empirical means of interpretation rather than a dogmatic theory. Greenblatt’s Hamlet in Purgatory (2001) delved into Shakespeare’s…

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    In Practicing New Historicism (2000), Greenblatt and coauthor Catherine Gallagher mounted a rigorous defense of New Historicism in response to charges that it lacked definition, casting it as an empirical means of interpretation rather than a dogmatic theory. Greenblatt’s Hamlet in Purgatory (2001) delved into Shakespeare’s…

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