Shakespeare Studies Today

1. Introduction
Edward Pechter

Part One. Discipline and Desire

2. Introduction: Discipline and Desire
Edward Pechter

3. Return of the Aesthetic?
Edward Pechter

4. Negative Desire: Materialism and Its Discontents
Edward Pechter

Part Two. What’s Wrong with Literature?

5. Introduction: What’s Wrong with Literature?
Edward Pechter

6. New Theatricalism and the Repudiation of Literary Interest
Edward Pechter

7. New Textualism and the Crisis in Editing
Edward Pechter

Part Three. Romanticism Lost

8. Introduction: Romanticism Lost
Edward Pechter

9. Romantic Antitheatricalism and Formalist Values
Edward Pechter

10. Romantic Authorship and Professional Values
Edward Pechter

11. Conclusion
Edward Pechter

Avainsanat: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies