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richly and compactly argued ... The implications of the thesis are far-reaching ... Written in an engaging, cerebral style by one of the foremost scholars of Renaissance humanism and theatre, Circumstantial Shakespeare urges a new perspective on Shakespeareas artistry. * William Weaver, Review of English Studies * brilliant ... For such a slim volume, this punches above its weight in terms of the impact it will have on how we think about Shakespeare's artistry, and the rhetorical techniques that make words feel like lives. * Derek Dunne, Renaissance Studies * Hutson's newest book, Circumstantial Shakespeare continues to refine her impressive insights about theatrical and legal culture in early modern England ... impressive [and] powerful. * Matthew Ritger, Los Angeles Review of Books * ... a book that offers a genuinely new way to historicize what is at once the most distinctive and most elusive quality of Shakespeare's art: its almost uncanny ability to represent inner life ... Hutson is an expert in the art of scholarly argument. * Kevin Curran, Shakespeare Quarterly * In this highly original study, Lorna Hutson makes a compelling case that Shakespeare fashioned the fully imagined worlds of his plays out of bits of language that Tudor grammar school students learned to insert in their orations and written compositions to render arguments coherent, probable, and vivid. * Joel B. Altman, Modern Philology *

richly and compactly argued ... The implications of the thesis are far-reaching ... Written in an engaging, cerebral style by one of the foremost scholars of Renaissance humanism and theatre, Circumstantial Shakespeare urges a new perspective on Shakespeare's artistry. * William Weaver, Review of English Studies * brilliant ... For such a slim volume, this punches above its weight in terms of the impact it will have on how we think about Shakespeare's artistry, and the rhetorical techniques that make words feel like lives. * Derek Dunne, Renaissance Studies * Hutson's newest book, Circumstantial Shakespeare continues to refine her impressive insights about theatrical and legal culture in early modern England ... impressive [and] powerful. * Matthew Ritger, Los Angeles Review of Books * ... a book that offers a genuinely new way to historicize what is at once the most distinctive and most elusive quality of Shakespeare's art: its almost uncanny ability to represent inner life ... Hutson is an expert in the art of scholarly argument. * Kevin Curran, Shakespeare Quarterly * In this highly original study, Lorna Hutson makes a compelling case that Shakespeare fashioned the fully imagined worlds of his plays out of bits of language that Tudor grammar school students learned to insert in their orations and written compositions to render arguments coherent, probable, and vivid. * Joel B. Altman, Modern Philology *

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Lorna Hutson is the Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She was educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh and Oxford and has taught at Queen Mary, University of London and at the University of California at Berkeley. Her books include Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), The Usurer's Daughter (1994), Feminism and Renaissance Studies (1999), Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe (with Victoria Kahn, 2001) and The Invention of Suspicion (2007), which won the Roland H. Bainton prize for literature in 2008. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim, the Folger, the Huntington, the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust.

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