W. B. Worthen, I suggested in a review of his Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (1997), swims with the sharks. So thorough is his argumentation, so sophisticated is his mapping of contemporary theory and scholarship, so tenacious is he to prove irrefutably his wisest and most commonsensical points, so determined is he to use the masters' theoretical tools to tear down the theory masters' houses, that he sometimes, almost inadvertently, appears to be making the very points he is in fact refuting.