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"""Bruster presents a timely and original analysis. Quoting Shakespeare makes an important and badly needed contribution to the field of early modern studies. His approach to the way we write cultural history represents a salutary alternative to the critique of domination that characterises much recent work.""--Michael D. Bristol, author of Big-Time Shakespeare. ""Bruster vividly demonstrates how Shakespeare, more inventively than other authors, borrows and transforms. Bruster's approach illuminates some ways in which reading a text inter-textually illuminates the author's relation to cultural, historical, and political contexts. The book helps us to understand the intensively composite nature of Shakespearean and other early modern texts, both dramatic and non-dramatic. In doing so, it also provides a methodological coherence by drawing on feminist, cultural materialist, and 'new' historicist criticism.""--David Bevington, editor of The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque"

Bruster presents a timely and original analysis. Quoting Shakespeare makes an important and badly needed contribution to the field of early modern studies. His approach to the way we write cultural history represents a salutary alternative to the critique of domination that characterises much recent work. --Michael D. Bristol, author of Big-Time Shakespeare. Bruster vividly demonstrates how Shakespeare, more inventively than other authors, borrows and transforms. Bruster's approach illuminates some ways in which reading a text inter-textually illuminates the author's relation to cultural, historical, and political contexts. The book helps us to understand the intensively composite nature of Shakespearean and other early modern texts, both dramatic and non-dramatic. In doing so, it also provides a methodological coherence by drawing on feminist, cultural materialist, and 'new' historicist criticism. --David Bevington, editor of The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

""Bruster presents a timely and original analysis. Quoting Shakespeare makes an important and badly needed contribution to the field of early modern studies. His approach to the way we write cultural history represents a salutary alternative to the critique of domination that characterises much recent work.""--Michael D. Bristol, author of Big-Time Shakespeare. ""Bruster vividly demonstrates how Shakespeare, more inventively than other authors, borrows and transforms. Bruster's approach illuminates some ways in which reading a text inter-textually illuminates the author's relation to cultural, historical, and political contexts. The book helps us to understand the intensively composite nature of Shakespearean and other early modern texts, both dramatic and non-dramatic. In doing so, it also provides a methodological coherence by drawing on feminist, cultural materialist, and 'new' historicist criticism.""--David Bevington, editor of The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

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Douglas Bruster is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare.

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