"…the New Historicism has given scholars new opportunities to cross the boundaries

separating history, anthropology, art, politics, literature, and economics" (Veeser ix).

"By discarding what they view as monologic and myopic historiography, by demonstrating
that social and cultural events commingle messily, by rigorously exposing the innumerable
tradeoffs, the competing bids and exchanges of culture, New Historicists can make a valid
claim to have established new ways of studying history and a new awareness of how history
and culture define each other" (Veeser xiii)

"…the work of art is the product of a negotiation between a creator or class of creators,
equipped with a complex, communally shared repertoire of conventions, the institutions and
practices of society" (Greenblatt 12)

"The textuality of history" : according to Louis A Montorse, "we can have no access to a full
and authentic past, a lived material existence, unmediated by the surviving textual traces of
the society in question…and secondly, that those textual traces are themselves subject to
subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the "documents" upon which
historians ground their own texts, called "histories"" (20).

"… the intellectual forces identifiable as New Historicism or Cultural Poetics, Cultural
Materialism…have been engaged in redrawing the boundaries and restructuring the content
of Renaissance studies during the past decade. Such forces have been in common a concern
at once to affirm and to render problematic the connections between literary and other
discourses, the dialectic between the text and the world" (Montrose 24).