Historical Criticism

What is Historical Criticism?

• Uncovers intellectual, social, and cultural background.

• Recreating the original intent and meaning.

• Strictly related to historical and religious texts.

• A study of the author's milieu and biography.

Does historical criticism include formal literary studies(creative writing)? True or False

• False

• True

Which is a philosophy of historical criticism?

• The past effects the author's choice of setting.

• It aligns with lower criticism.

• Literature shapes history.

• History shapes literature.

Biblical criticism is not a form of historical criticism, True or False

• True

• False

Which groups opposed Historical Criticism?

• Marxists

• Feminists

• Protestants

• Liberationists

Which is a property of New Historicism?

• The Derridean view

• The Freudian Philosophy

• Newton's Third Law of Motion

• None of the others

Foucault was an ardent supporter of which historicism philosophy?

• Old Historicism

• New Historicism

• Traditional Hisoricism

A historical critic would think Hamlet's character is based on...

• Julius Caesar

• King Charles the I

• Shakespeare's life

• Shakespeare himself