 | Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory etc; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- History -- 1066–1687 -- Historiography; Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way we conventionally understand physical objects. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, he considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University and the author of Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
