Critical approaches to Shakespeare (1623-2000): Shakespeare for all time

 Critical Approaches to Shakespeare (1623–2000): Shakespeare for All Time addresses the keys to understanding the significance of the critical reception of Shakespeare from the seventeenth to the end of the twentieth century. It aims to show that the richness of these different modes of reading Shakespeare over time and their productive interactions have been fundamental in the constant resignification of Shakespeare as they have gradually conformed and fed our critical perception and interpretation of his works. 

This book outlines the most influential critical reflections and methods inspired by Shakespeare’s writings and their main representatives as it digs into the fertile dialogue between these approaches, which emanate from the complexity and Depth of the author’s work. These critical paradigms react to previous positions and set the basis for the following ones, sometimes oppositional and sometimes complementary, but always vital to comprehending the past, present, and future historical, literary, and social impact of the author’s work. 

The review Critical Approaches to Shakespeare offers of the main critical lines from the seventeenth to the end of the twentieth century shows where critical studies of Shakespeare come from, an indispensable scholarly task which is crucial to understanding that the new turns and approaches to the author during the twenty first century relate and speak to their forerunners in multifarious enriching ways from humanist, social, formalist, theatrical, and historical perspectives whose nuances can only be fully appreciated by knowing the evolution of Shakespeare critical practices from their very beginnings.