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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 Shakespeares art: its almost uncanny ability to represent inner life ... Hutson is an expert in the art of scholarly argument. Kevin Curran, Shakespeare Quarterly 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 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 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

Hutson examines the subtle ways in which the language of the drama inflects sensory experience to produce vivid notions of happening. Arguing against the largely accepted critical commonplace that Shakespeare was disinterested in neo-classical expectations of time and place, Hutson shows how circumstances produced often very dense narratives of experience in which both time and place are clearly and carefully defined. * Charlotte Scott, Shakespeare Survey * In this highly original study ... Hutson raises the question of whether Shakespeare's fellow playwrights also used circumstances to compose character and world. As we might expect, it is Jonson who most fully savors the inferential probabilities of the topics. Although she offers some observations regarding Marlowe's and Lyly's practices, and a fascinating analysis of the psychological and political reach of how and where in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, these accounts, she admits, are just placeholders for future investigation. Given the vast erudition she manifests here, and her talent for ferreting out fresh meaning from familiar material, let us hope she will take up her own suggestion. * Joel B. Altman, Modern Philology * 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 * ... 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 * 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 * 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 * 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 *

Hutson examines the subtle ways in which the language of the drama inflects sensory experience to produce vivid notions of happening. Arguing against the largely accepted critical commonplace that Shakespeare was disinterested in neo-classical expectations of time and place, Hutson shows how circumstances produced often very dense narratives of experience in which both time and place are clearly and carefully defined. * Charlotte Scott, Shakespeare Survey * In this highly original study ... Hutson raises the question of whether Shakespeare's fellow playwrights also used circumstances to compose ""character"" and ""world."" As we might expect, it is Jonson who most fully savors the inferential probabilities of the topics. Although she offers some observations regarding Marlowe's and Lyly's practices, and a fascinating analysis of the psychological and political reach of ""how"" and ""where"" in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, these accounts, she admits, are just placeholders for future investigation. Given the vast erudition she manifests here, and her talent for ferreting out fresh meaning from familiar material, let us hope she will take up her own suggestion. * Joel B. Altman, Modern Philology * 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 * ... 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 * 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 * 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 * 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 Shakespeareâs artistry. * William Weaver, Review of English Studies *

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 *

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 ... 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 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 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 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

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 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 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

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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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