The Shakespeare Effect A History of Twentieth-Century Performance
, by Shaughnessy, Robert- ISBN: 9780333779378 | 0333779371
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/7/2002
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.