Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare Harris Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Untimely Matter in the Time of ShakespeareAuthor(s): Jonathan Gil Harris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812221466, 978-0812221466\nSynopsis\nSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title\n The New Historicism of the 1980s and early 1990s was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of \""thing studies\"" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing?\n In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Harris challenges the ways we conventi.