Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now: Criticism and Theory in by Cary Dipietro

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There are of course any number of critics and critical methods employing Presentist principles without 8 Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now using that term. If there is a manifesto for contemporary Presentism in Shakespeare studies, it is Terence Hawkes, Shakespeare in the Present (2002), particularly the brief Introduction (1–5); although all of Hawkes’s works of recent years, including That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a Critical Process (London: Methuen, 1986) and Meaning by Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 1992), are examples of his particular version of Presentism.

Gregory Moore (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006). 1 In the early, extremely violent play Titus Andronicus, this convergence is particularly apparent, and it has become even more so in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. We want to make use of this convergence to exemplify one version of the Presentist criticism discussed in the Foreword by Terence Hawkes and in our Introduction. As we noted, there is no one single kind of Presentism, but rather a multiplicity of possible approaches.

If there is a manifesto for contemporary Presentism in Shakespeare studies, it is Terence Hawkes, Shakespeare in the Present (2002), particularly the brief Introduction (1–5); although all of Hawkes’s works of recent years, including That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a Critical Process (London: Methuen, 1986) and Meaning by Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 1992), are examples of his particular version of Presentism. 6. 1 (2005): 102–20. 7. In contrast, theoretical presentism in the positive sense—ironically for us, using the term “historicism” as its self-designation—goes back at least to the early twentieth-century Italian philosopher of history Benedetto Croce, who wrote, for example, “The practical requirements which underlie every historical judgment give to all history the character of ‘contemporary history’ because, however remote in time events there recounted may seem to be, the history in reality refers to present needs and present situations wherein those events vibrate” (History as the Story of Liberty, 1938; trans.

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