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The Shakespeare Effect

A History of Twentieth-Century Performance

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  • © 2002

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  1. Robert Shaughnessy
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 1-14

  3. Desperate Experiments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Last of the Pre-Raphaelites

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 17-54

    3. Cambridge Irish

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 55-76

  4. The Double Life of Tyrone Guthrie

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Hamlet and Oedipus Biggs

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 79-120

    3. Revolution in Stratford

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 121-146

  5. The Strange Death of Shakespeare’s England

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Seeing through Shakespeare

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 149-181

    3. Ruined Lear

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 182-193

    4. Conclusion

      • Robert Shaughnessy
      Pages 194-197

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 198-221
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About this book

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.

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'...makes a significant contribution to the literature on the difficult task of theorizing Shakespeare on stage.' - J.Schlueter, Choice

About the author

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.

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