This anthology traces the ascendancy of materialist Shakespeare criticism in the United States and Great Britain over the past decade-and-a-half, influenced by such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser.

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital. IVO RAMPS is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Ivo Is the author of Staging History: Historiography, Ideology, and Literary Form In the Stuart Drama, and editor of Shakespeare Left and Right and Materialist Shakespeare.