04509nam 2200721 a 450 991081288090332120240418022319.01-283-21169-697866132116990-8122-0220-110.9783/9780812202205(CKB)2550000000051179(OCoLC)759158249(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492005(SSID)ssj0000542282(PQKBManifestationID)11340030(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542282(PQKBWorkID)10509833(PQKB)11012653(MiAaPQ)EBC3441548(MdBmJHUP)muse3201(DE-B1597)449078(OCoLC)979577698(DE-B1597)9780812202205(Au-PeEL)EBL3441548(CaPaEBR)ebr10492005(CaONFJC)MIL321169(OCoLC)748533384(EXLCZ)99255000000005117920080527d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrUntimely matter in the time of Shakespeare[electronic resource] /Jonathan Gil Harris1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20091 online resource (289 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4118-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index.Reading matter : George Herbert and the East-West palimpsests of The temple -- Performing history : East-West palimpsests in William Shakespeare's second Henriad -- The writing on the wall : London's old Jewry and John Stow's urban palimpsest -- The smell of gunpowder : Macbeth and the palimpsests of olfaction -- Touching matters : Margaret Cavendish's and Hélène Cixous's palimpsested bodies -- Crumpled handkerchiefs : William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's palimpsested time.Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The New Historicism of the 1980's and early 1990's was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of "thing studies" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing? In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Harris challenges the ways we conventionally understand physical objects and their relation to history. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, Harris considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. He reveals that many "Renaissance" objects were actually survivals from an older time-the medieval monastic properties that, post-Reformation, were recycled as stage props in the public playhouses, or the old Roman walls of London, still visible in Shakespeare's time. Then, as now, old objects were inherited, recycled, repurposed; they were polytemporal or palimpsested. By treating matter as dynamic and temporally hybrid, Harris addresses objects in their futurity, not just in their encapsulation of the past. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare is a bold study that puts the matériel-the explosive, world-changing potential-back into a "material culture" that has been too often understood as inert stuff.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismTheory, etcLiterature and historyGreat BritainHistoryLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistoryGreat BritainHistory1066-1687HistoriographyCultural Studies.Literature.Medieval and Renaissance Studies.English literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Literature and historyHistory.Literature and societyHistory.820.9/003Harris Jonathan Gil592866MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812880903321Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare4108862UNINA