“…Joseph Harris, for example, notes that for Roland Barthes, one of the shining lights in the postmodern firmament, Balzac and Racine represent the worst sort of writing," namely, "the closed work," or "well-made text." 62 In postmodern theory, the "well-made text" can even be turned into a botch. Summarizing one of the major radical changes in modern Shakespeare studies, Gary Taylor observes that "Innumerable critics have admired the aesthetic wholeness of texts that are being described, now, as inept collages of radically incompatible material, scissored and pasted together."…”