Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism, Feminism and Marxist Humanism

Abstract

BACK IN 1982 Alan Sinfield and I thought that, despite obvious differences, there was sufficient convergence between British cultural materialism and American new historicism to bring the two together in a collection of essays. Things were different then, and we envisaged something like a progressive alliance between the two in a field that badly needed both. The result, Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism, appeared in 1985.' Recent articles by American critics sympathetic to the British materialist critical project--including Carolyn Porter, Louis Montrose, Don Wayne, Walter Cohen, and Karen Newman-persuade me that something like an alliance has indeed occurred, even though some of these critics have rightly remarked the differences between the two movements.2

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