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In this controversial book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company , and in particular: the influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg the history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare and Feminist Performance demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help anyone interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.

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I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new Accents on Shakespeare volumes in the new series edited by Terence Hawkes and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism. -Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Accents on Shakespeare is shaping up as everything a streetwise series of books on the Bard should be: engaged, imaginative, heretical and occasionally outrageous. No one who aims to have their finger on the pulse of Shakespeare studies can afford to ignore it. -Kiernan Ryan Professor of English, Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge

I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new Accents on Shakespeare volumes in the new series edited by Terence Hawkes and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism. <br>-Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst <br> Accents on Shakespeare is shaping up as everything a streetwise series of books on the Bard should be: engaged, imaginative, heretical and occasionally outrageous. No one who aims to have their finger on the pulse of Shakespeare studies can afford to ignore it. <br>-Kiernan Ryan Professor of English, Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge <br>

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