Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

Alan Sinfield. Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism.

Accents on Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 2006. xxii + 226 pp. index. bibl. $33.95. ISBN: 0-415-40236-0.

While the subtitle's phrase unfinished business suggests a score-settling polemic, Alan Sinfield's most recent book instead presents a measured "reassessment" of the legacy of cultural materialist scholarship (5). He notes that the term cultural materialism comes from Raymond Williams and that it emerged in the 1980s in Britain as both an alternative to ...

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