Description: A fresh approach to the plays that suggests they can be seen as metaphysical 'experiments' conducted in the medium of drama.
Brief description: Michael Witmore is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, USA. His book, Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England (Stanford, 2001) was the co-winner of the Perkins Prize for the Study of Narrative Literature in 2003. He is also the author of Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance (Cornell, 2007)
Review Quotes: Mention -Book News, February 2009