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ONE'S OWN TIME AND PLACE Part 1: One of Shakespeare’s defining knacks, so it’s said, is and was his ability to render his own time and place more or less irrelevant to the appreciation of his art.1 In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as I was settling into the last college in which I would spend my teaching career, there was a theoretically informed return to history in Renaissance/early modern studies and, therefore, the study of the works of Shakespeare. Part of that return to history was the result of Stephen Greenblatt who is regarded as, arguably, the major founder of New Historicism
