Constructing a World

Constructing a WorldExamines recent developments in historical fiction, with particular attention to the way contemporary writers have portrayed Shakespearean England. Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre's defining characteristics. It also serves as a lively account of the way Shakespeare, Marlowe, Raleigh,

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