It serves as a magnificent digest of our knowledge and a good guide to the history and politics of the period. Will in the World will be immensely valuable to anyone interested in Shakespeare. Indeed, there has not been for more than a century a biography of Shakespeare more steeped in our historical knowledge of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. But this charge cannot be levelled at Greenblatt, who has illuminated Renaissance thought with wide historical reading for a generation.
It has been well said that New Historicism is old historicism minus most of the ideas. The jacket of this book tells us that Stephen Greenblatt is "the founder of the school of criticism known as New Historicism".
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