David Scott Kastan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Among his publications are Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time, Staging theRenaissance (ed. with Peter Stallybrass), Critical Essayson Shakespeare's Hamlet, and The New History of EarlyEnglish Drama (ed. with John Cox). He is also a general editor of the Arden Shakespeare.
Part 1 Introduction
Introduction
Part 2 Demanding History
Chapter 1 Shakespeare after Theory
Chapter 2 Are We Being Interdisciplinary Yet?
Part 3 The Text in History
Chapter 3 The Mechanics of Culture
Chapter 4 Shakespeare in Print
Chapter 5 "Killed with Hard Opinions"
Part 4 The Text as History
Chapter 6 "Proud Majesty Made a Subject"
Chapter 7 "The King hath many marching in his Coats," or, What did you do in the War, Daddy?
Chapter 8 Is There a Class in This (Shakespearean) Text?
Chapter 9 Macbeth and the "Name of King"
Chapter 10 "The Duke of Milan / And his Brave Son"
Part 5 Coda
Chapter 11 "Publike Sports" and "Publike Calamities"
