books.google.co.uk - Holger Syme presents a radically new explanation for the theater's importance in Shakespeare's time. He portrays early modern England as a culture of mediation, dominated by transactions in which one person stood in for another, giving voice to absent speakers or bringing past events to life. No art...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Theatre_and_Testimony_in_Shakespeare_s_E.html?id=R7zEOr11GRsC&q=deferral&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTheatre and Testimony in Shakespeare's England
