Ann Baynes Coiro is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is author of Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition and has published many essays, journal articles and book chapters on Milton, genre and book history, seventeenth-century court culture and English theatre. Thomas Fulton is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is author of Historical Milton: Manuscript, Print, and Political Culture in Revolutionary England as well as journal articles and book chapters on the cultural intersection of politics and religion, problems in rhetoric and generic form, and the history of reading.

'This rich and timely collection of essays, edited by Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton, comes at a moment when historicism's primacy in the field of early modern literary studies seems somehow at once both more assured and more precarious than ever … Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton stands on multiple levels as a compelling testament to historicism's enduring worth.' Jeffrey Alan Miller, Milton Quarterly

• Acknowledgments; Introduction Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton; Part I. Historicism and Its Discontents: 1. Has historicism gone too far: or, should we return to form? Andrew Hadfield; 2. Theory and practice in historical method Michael McKeon; 3. Limiting history Marshall Grossman; Part II. Historicism and Theology: 4. The politics of Renaissance historicism: Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and more Thomas Fulton; 5. Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello Heather Hirschfeld; Part III. Dramatic Histories: 6. The new presentism and its discontents: listening to Eastward Ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue Paul Stevens; 7. In great men's houses: playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history Lawrence Manley; Part IV. Milton and the Problems of History: 8. Medea's dilemma: politics and passion in Milton's divorce tracts Sharon Achinstein; 9. Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism Martin Dzelzainis; Part V. Gendering Historicism: 10. 'You shall be our generalless': fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton Laura Knoppers; 11. War-times: seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives Erin Murphy; Afterword Nigel Smith.

Ann Baynes Coiro is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is author of Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition and has published many essays, journal articles and book chapters on Milton, genre and book history, seventeenth-century court culture and English theatre. Thomas Fulton is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is author of Historical Milton: Manuscript, Print, and Political Culture in Revolutionary England as well as journal articles and book chapters on the cultural intersection of politics and religion, problems in rhetoric and generic form, and the history of reading.

'This rich and timely collection of essays, edited by Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton, comes at a moment when historicism's primacy in the field of early modern literary studies seems somehow at once both more assured and more precarious than ever … Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton stands on multiple levels as a compelling testament to historicism's enduring worth.' Jeffrey Alan Miller, Milton Quarterly

• Acknowledgments; Introduction Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton; Part I. Historicism and Its Discontents: 1. Has historicism gone too far: or, should we return to form? Andrew Hadfield; 2. Theory and practice in historical method Michael McKeon; 3. Limiting history Marshall Grossman; Part II. Historicism and Theology: 4. The politics of Renaissance historicism: Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and more Thomas Fulton; 5. Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello Heather Hirschfeld; Part III. Dramatic Histories: 6. The new presentism and its discontents: listening to Eastward Ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue Paul Stevens; 7. In great men's houses: playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history Lawrence Manley; Part IV. Milton and the Problems of History: 8. Medea's dilemma: politics and passion in Milton's divorce tracts Sharon Achinstein; 9. Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism Martin Dzelzainis; Part V. Gendering Historicism: 10. 'You shall be our generalless': fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton Laura Knoppers; 11. War-times: seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives Erin Murphy; Afterword Nigel Smith.

Ann Baynes Coiro is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is author of Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition and has published many essays, journal articles and book chapters on Milton, genre and book history, seventeenth-century court culture and English theatre. Thomas Fulton is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is author of Historical Milton: Manuscript, Print, and Political Culture in Revolutionary England as well as journal articles and book chapters on the cultural intersection of politics and religion, problems in rhetoric and generic form, and the history of reading.

'This rich and timely collection of essays, edited by Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton, comes at a moment when historicism's primacy in the field of early modern literary studies seems somehow at once both more assured and more precarious than ever … Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton stands on multiple levels as a compelling testament to historicism's enduring worth.' Jeffrey Alan Miller, Milton Quarterly

• Acknowledgments; Introduction Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton; Part I. Historicism and Its Discontents: 1. Has historicism gone too far: or, should we return to form? Andrew Hadfield; 2. Theory and practice in historical method Michael McKeon; 3. Limiting history Marshall Grossman; Part II. Historicism and Theology: 4. The politics of Renaissance historicism: Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and more Thomas Fulton; 5. Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello Heather Hirschfeld; Part III. Dramatic Histories: 6. The new presentism and its discontents: listening to Eastward Ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue Paul Stevens; 7. In great men's houses: playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history Lawrence Manley; Part IV. Milton and the Problems of History: 8. Medea's dilemma: politics and passion in Milton's divorce tracts Sharon Achinstein; 9. Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism Martin Dzelzainis; Part V. Gendering Historicism: 10. 'You shall be our generalless': fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton Laura Knoppers; 11. War-times: seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives Erin Murphy; Afterword Nigel Smith.