Description: Provocative exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare.
Brief description: William McKenzie has taught at University College London and King's College London, UK.
Review Quotes: '...a new critical anthology that makes a clear and badly needed intervention in today's world of academic Shakespeare scholarship, calling for a new critical practice in which the subjectivity of the critic-scholar is itself acknowledged, represented, and made the basis for creative readings of Shakespeare's works. Just as remarkably, they have recruited their authors from some of the leading practitioners of the field, all of whom respond enthusiastically and in a variety of moods and manners, to the challenge. This is a bold and memorable collection that will certainly impact the field.'
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900