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Zusatztext '...makes a significant contribution to the literature on the difficult task of theorizing Shakespeare on stage.' - J.Schlueter! Choice Informationen zum Autor ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Reader in Drama at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He has published widely in the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and contemporary theatre; his books include Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC, Shakespeare on Film, and Shakespeare in Performance . Klappentext This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed include modernist Shakespearean performance's relation with psychoanalysis, the hidden gender dynamics of the open stage movement, and the appropriation of Shakespeare himself as a dramatic fiction and theatrical icon. Zusammenfassung This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed include modernist Shakespearean performance's relation with psychoanalysis! the hidden gender dynamics of the open stage movement! and the appropriation of Shakespeare himself as a dramatic fiction and theatrical icon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: DESPERATE EXPERIMENTS The Last of the Pre-Raphaelites Cambridge Irish PART II: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF TYRONE GUTHRIE Hamlet and Oedipus Biggs Revolution in Stratford PART III: THE STRANGE DEATH OF SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND Seeing Through Shakespeare Ruined Lear Conclusion Notes Index
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ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Reader in Drama at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He has published widely in the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and contemporary theatre; his books include
Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC, Shakespeare on Film,
and
Shakespeare in Performance
.
