Shakespeare’s Surrogates

1. “Blaming the Bard”: Shaw, Shakespeare, Shotover
Sonya Freeman Loftis

2. Tearing the Skin Off of History: Brecht and the Early Modern Body
Sonya Freeman Loftis

3. “To face my dead at last”: The Personal and Literary Ghosts of Long Day’s Journey into Night
Sonya Freeman Loftis

4. “Some remains”: Forgetting Shakespeare in Endgame and Happy Days
Sonya Freeman Loftis

5. “Blood is compulsory”: The Player’s Death in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Sonya Freeman Loftis

6. “A MOTHER’S WOMB IS NOT A ONE-WAY STREET”: Reentering the Shakespearean Womb of Hamletmachine
Sonya Freeman Loftis

7. Afterword
Sonya Freeman Loftis

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature