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Shakespeare on Later Stages

Here are four welcome additions to a rapidly-expanding library on Shakespeare's plays as performed on post-Renaissance stages. Each makes a different kind of contribution: comprehensive stage history of a play; history of major portrayals of a single character; study of a director's varied dealings with one play; and anthology of actors' ideas about Shakespearean roles. All these approaches, particularly the first one, have become familiar during the past two or three decades; but, although the works under review have family resemblances to some of their predecessors, they are far from being simply "more of the same."