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Featuring a list of contributors, this collection of readings adopts an approach to Shakespeare by focusing on the principles of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the continual dialogue between past and present.

Presentist Shakespeares "constitutes the first extended exposition and exploration of the principles and the practice of presentism. Although an emphasis on history or historical context has been very important in recent Shakespeare scholarship, no critic is able to make direct contact with a past uncontaminated by their own contemporary concerns. By the same token, all experience of the present is moulded by the past. "Presentism, " as elabor...