Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - DiPietro, Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now: Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century SP - 9-37 ID - bbbc575 T1 - "Presentism, Anachronism, and Titus Andronicus" AU - DiPietro, Cary AU - Grady, Hugh PY - 2013 DA - 2013 KW - presentism KW - anachronism KW - historicism LA - English AB - Through examining Shakespeare's use of anachronisms in Titus Andronicus, offers an example of a specific kind of presentism that acknowledges the importance of understanding a text in its historical context while also acknowledging that such historicist attempts are already implicated in the values and suppositions of the moment within which they are created, thus creating an analogy between past and present. ER -