<p>"This volume deserves to be placed at the forefront of some of the most promising developments in today's Shakespeare scholarship and criticism." -- Modern Language Quarterly<br />"Kastan's study provides welcome new direction for Shakespearean study at a time when scholarly discussions have begun to stagnate.this timely study should offer new and stimulating directions for what my well be the next phase of Shakespearean scholarship." -- Sixteenth-Century Journal<br />"... most readers will be grateful for his salutary insistence on and contributions to historical particularity, as well as his judicious criticism of "totalizing" methods." -- Renaissance Quarterly<br />"Kastan's ability to frame theoretical issues memorably is, in fact, a distinguishing mark of Shakespeare After Theory." -- Journal of English and Germanic Philology<br />"<strong>Kastan's</strong> book demonstrates wide reading in history as well as literature, much of it current and carefully documented. Recommended to upper-division undergraduates through faculty for the clarity of its presentation and the breadth of its scholarship." -- <em> Choice </em></p>