Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare Jonathan Gil Harris "A stylish, readable, and important intervention in early modern studies. In recalling a past that never was, it invites us to a future that might not be the same."--Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University "It is difficult to do justice here to the extraordinarily wide range of critical and theoretical models that Harris draws on, or the ease with which he brings them together. . . . Harris"s book is important . . . not only for its fine discussions of individual works but also for setting a yardstick for the work that early modernists might do in this area, and for the form that a "turn to time" might take."--TLS "Excitingly--and excitedly--written, energetic and widely suggestive. In restoring to the discussion of historical objects their resistance to temporal fixities, Harris"s book does cultural historians a service."--Renaissance Quarterly "A deep, intelligent, thought-provoking book on the ways in which physical...