Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
Playing the Unplayable
By E.A.J. Honigmann
Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy
by John Gross
Simon and Schuster, 386 pp., $25.00
The Masks of Hamlet
by Marvin Rosenberg
University of Delaware Press, 971 pp., $69.50
Histories of the staging of Shakespeare's plays have changed a good deal in the decades since G.C.D. Odell's extensive Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving, published in two volumes in 1920. The fascinating new books by John Gross and Marvin Rosenberg are both brimming with fresh ideas and information that will ensure their being read for decades to come.
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