Open the curtain and see their puppets play
Peter Burke, 5 January 1989
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
by Stephen Greenblatt.
Oxford, 205 pp., £22.50, April 1988,0 19 812980 7 Show More
by Stephen Greenblatt.
Oxford, 205 pp., £22.50, April 1988,
Representing the English Renaissance
edited by Stephen Greenblatt.
California, 372 pp., $42, February 1988,0 520 06129 2 Show More
edited by Stephen Greenblatt.
California, 372 pp., $42, February 1988,
“... Samuel Harsnett’s A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (also 1603) and Thomas Harriot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588). He claims that a close study of Harsnett allows a re-interpretation of King Lear; that an examination of the Renaissance views of gender, sex and hermaphrodites discussed in ... ”