The Shakespeare Effect (2002)
Literary Criticism / General, - Performing Arts / Theater / General -
NOT_MATURE -
Robert Shaughnessy
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.<br>