This means jettisoning the yearning to find the 'true meaning' of Shakespeare's texts--as Shakespeare wrote at a time when poetry was not meant to be interpreted, but experienced as a window on the world.
Sky Gilbert looks at Shakespeare in the context of the 'style wars' that obsessed the early modern period, placing Shakespeare on the side of Lyly, Nashe, Sturm, and the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes, against the new forward-looking more scientific approach to literature, as exp.
Guernica Editions Shakespeare beyond science: when poetry was the world, paperback/sky gilbert
