Literary Theory Review: New Historicism

Using the following references below to answer the following questions.
• https://www.shmoop.com/new-historicism/
• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/09/
• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/New_Historicism
Questions to be answered.
1. What is the theory?
2. What is the population it covers?
3. What is the historical basis for the theory’s existence?
4. When is it used?