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English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, Great Britain - Theater - History & Criticism
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The Shakespeare Effect

by Robert Shaughnessy
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Overview

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.

Synopsis

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.

About the Author, Robert Shaughnessy

Robert Shaughnessy is Principal Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Surrey Roehampton.

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Book Details

Published
September 1, 2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
232
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780333779378

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