Amazon.com description: Product Description: This volume brings together a number of scholarly theoretical articles on Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism. Contributors include literary and cultural theorists, Shakespeareans and literary historians, all of whom address Greenblatt's work from an interdisciplinary angle. Not only does the volume stage a confrontation of Greenblatt's writings with that of other theoreticians such as Michel de Certeau, Rene Girard and Ludwig Wittgenstein, it also contains a number of practical applications and/or theoretical critiques of the "method" of the New Historicism.