Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare
By: Jonathan Gil Harris.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780812241181
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687 -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading matter: George Herbert and the East-West palimpsests of the temple; title: Performing history: East-West palimpsests in William Shakespeare's second Henriad; title: The writing on the wall: London's old jewry and John Stow's urban palimpsest; title: The smell of gunpowder: Macbeth and the palimpsests of olfaction; title: Touching matters: Margaret Cavendish's and Hélène Cixous's palimpsested bodies; title: Crumpled handkerchiefs: William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's palimpsested time.