Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the “Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics” conference, held at the Huntington Library on April 17-18, 2015. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.

Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics

Welcome by Steve Hindle

The “new social history” has exploded the myth that Shakespeare’s society comprised a culture of obedience. Repositioning his works in the popular politics of his period, social historians and literary critics reassess Shakespeare’s presentation of power and authority.

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Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics