Resistant Structures

""Resistant Structures manages to be both stunning and sensible. . . .The book is an erudite, sensitive, and theoretically provocative experiment in political criticism, at once radical and rigorous, which will be of lasting value to all students of English Renaissance literature."--Debora Shuger, author of "The Renaissance Bible

"These essays have a cumulative and exemplary force, which is due to Strier's knowlege, his intelligence, the clarity of his writing, and the honesty of his procedures."--Paul Alpers, author of "Singer of the Eclogues: A Study of Virgilian Pastoral