Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare

Harris, Jonathan Gil.

Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare [electronic resource] / Jonathan Gil Harris. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009. - viii, 278 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index.

Reading matter : George Herbert and the East-West palimpsests of The temple -- Performing history : East-West palimpsests in William Shakespeare's second Henriad -- The writing on the wall : London's old Jewry and John Stow's urban palimpsest -- The smell of gunpowder : Macbeth and the palimpsests of olfaction -- Touching matters : Margaret Cavendish's and Helene Cixous's palimpsested bodies -- Crumpled handkerchiefs : William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's palimpsested time.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780812202205 (electronic bk.)




English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Literature and history--History.--Great Britain
Literature and society--History.--Great Britain


Great Britain--History--Historiography.--1066-1687


Electronic books.

PR421 / .H26 2009

820.9/003