Shakespeare’s Culture in Modern Performance

Reaching across and beyond literary studies to offer challenging and powerful contributions from leading scholars, this book offers unique readings of some very familiar plays.

The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers through the ages.

The book concerns itself with material rarely or never viewed as part of the “Poets’ War” (such as the mutual attempted cuckoldings of The Insatiate Countess and the Middle Temple performance of Twelfth Night) rather than with texts (like Satiromastix and Poetaster) long considered in this light.

Though only 34 years old at the time of his death in 1917, T.E. Hulme had already taken his place at the center of pre-war London’s advanced intellectual circles.