Unhistorical Shakespeare
Unhistorical Shakespeare argues that the way in which we study history has significant bearing on what desire we study, and how we study it. Menon argues that our embrace of difference as the template for relating past and present produces a hetero temporality in which chronology determines identity. In turn, such an understanding of history fixes sexual identity as the domain of the present and relegates nebulous desire to a thing of the past. In contrast to this temporal-sexual reification,...
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Unhistorical Shakespeare argues that the way in which we study history has significant bearing on what desire we study, and how we study it. Menon argues that our embrace of difference as the template for relating past and present produces a hetero temporality in which chronology determines identity. In turn, such an understanding of history fixes sexual identity as the domain of the present and relegates nebulous desire to a thing of the past. In contrast to this temporal-sexual reification, Unhistorical Shakespeare outlines the idea of homohistory, which questions the fundamental historicist assumptions of teleology, facticity, citation, origins, and authenticity to lay bare their investments in compulsory hetero temporality.
The argument: unhistoricism, or homohistory 11 Teleology : spurning consequence in Venus and Adonis 272 Facts : Cymbeline and the "whore" of historicism 513 Citation : Bollywood quotes Much ado 734 Origins : Titus Andronicus and the source of desire 955 Authenticity : in search of Shakespeare (in love) 115The anecdote : Arabian nights 139Notes 143Selected bibliography 175Index 183
