Shakespeare’s Surrogates

1. Front Matter

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2. “Blaming the Bard”: Shaw, Shakespeare, Shotover

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   Pages 1-31

3. Tearing the Skin Off of History: Brecht and the Early Modern Body

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   Pages 33-64

4. “To face my dead at last”: The Personal and Literary Ghosts of Long Day’s Journey into Night

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   Pages 65-78

5. “Some remains”: Forgetting Shakespeare in Endgame and Happy Days

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6. “Blood is compulsory”: The Player’s Death in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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   Pages 97-109

7. “A MOTHER’S WOMB IS NOT A ONE-WAY STREET”: Reentering the Shakespearean Womb of Hamletmachine

   • Sonya Freeman Loftis

   Pages 111-133

8. Afterword

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   Pages 135-139

9. Back Matter

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Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.

• George Bernard Shaw
• Hamlet
• Renaissance
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

"Sonya Freeman Loftis's Shakespeare's Surrogates: Rewriting Renaissance Drama is a strong collection of essays describing the various ways that Shakespeare is embodied and engaged on the modern drama stage." - Francesca Coppa, Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, USA

Sonya Freeman Loftis is an Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at Morehouse College.

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