Stuart Hall was an important scholar who contributed to the movement for New Historicism which is so important in the world of Shakespeare studies.

NY Times Feb 17, 2014
by William Yardley

Stuart Hall, a pioneering Jamaican-born British academic who argued that culture is in fact multicultural — not high or low, good or bad, or black or white, but a constantly shifting convergence reflecting the range of people who create and consume it — died on Feb. 10 in London. He was 82.

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