New Readings vs. Old Plays: Recent Trends in the Reinterpretation of English Renaissance Drama

Abstract

With his latest book, Richard Levin enters a debate more extensive and disorderly than his title suggests.He begins to define its real dimensions in the Preface, where he describes his investigation of recent critical trends whose "influence now pervades the interpretation of works in just about every genre and period . .." (p.ix).Even as Professor Levin composed this volume during the 1970s, literary criticism entered a new phase of self-conscious reassessment by means of such approaches as semiotics, structuralism, and reader-response theory.In 1979, when his book was published, assessments of the reassessments began to appearfor example M.H. Abrams, "How to Do Things with Texts" {Partisan Review A6 [1979], 566-588) and Gerald Graff, Literature against /r^e//

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