New Historicism is a theory based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts, usually of the same historical period, and studies literary and non-literary texts with equal weight. This includes intensive close reading of non-literary texts. The theory reviews canonical texts by defamiliarising' the past weight of the literature to study as new. This theory analyzes issues of State power and how it is maintained, on the patriarchy, and colonialization. Theorists analyze the textual history of the past because it is “embedded" in the textuality of the present and concerns; therefore, text and context are less distinct in practice. Texts are studied for how they reveal economic and social realities, ideology, representation of power, or subversion. New Historicism, particularly, is interested in representations of marginal/marginalized groups and non-normative behaviors, such as witchcraft and revolts to demonstrate the need for power to represent subversive alternatives to legitimize itself.