Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare's authorial afterlife.

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"This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the Uni

This is the first collection to systematically combine the study of memory and affect in early modern culture. Essays by leading and emergent scholars in the fi