Barker and Hulme, ''Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish''

I would like to claim this article for my presentation.

"This may seem a strange thing to say about the most notoriously bloated of all critical enterprises, but in fact "Shakespeare" has been force-fed behind a high wall called Literature, built out of the dismantled pieces of other seventeenth-century discourses" (444).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/04/shakespeare_the_writer_the_his.html

We are always comparing texts for the purpose of criticizing them

Position, Limits, Critiquing
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/04/position_limits_critiquing.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/04/insert-really-g.html

"In other words a text this is fixed in history and, at the same time, curiously free of historical limation" (Barker and Hulme 443).

is there a difference in a performance and reading literature?

War! Huh, What is it good for?

Intertextuality is Messing Things Up?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/04/intertextuality-is-messing-thi.html

“In order to speak of the Shakespearean text as an historical utterance, it is necessary to read it with and within series of con-texts. These cont-texts are the precondition of the plays’ historical and political signification, although literary criticism has operated systematically to close down that signification by a continual process of occlusion” (Barker and Hulme 444).

Unhistorical history

"This may seem a strange thing to say about the most notoriously bloated of all critical enterprises, but in fact 'Shakespeare' has been force-fed behind a high wall called Literature" (Barker and Hulme 444).