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Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare’s 20th-century fascist followers is not just an important but a genuinely essential book: one that includes in its ranks not only known outliers and eccentrics but some of the most celebrated and influential figures in the Shakespeare business. With a cast that includes Edward Gordon Craig, G. Wilson Knight, Philip Larkin and Frances Yates, Shakespeare's Fascist Followers: Modern Friends assembles the devastating evidence of a modernist, fascist Shakespeare that is more deeply embedded in the critical and theatrical canon than many would care to admit; it is hard-hitting and also scathingly funny. * Robert Shaughnessy, Guildford School of Acting, UK * A fascinating tour of the darker side of Shakespeare’s political afterlife in the 20th century. * Andreas Höfele, University of Munich, Germany *

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Richard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor Emeritus of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. Roger Holdsworth is a member of Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK. Robert Stagg is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the New Variorum Shakespeare at Texas A&M University, USA. David Thacker is a theatre, film and television director and Professor of Theatre and Film, University of Greater Manchester, UK.

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