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Article: This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now. By DAVID BEVINGTON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2007. xi+242 pp. 12.20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-04478-1.
Released in 2007 to coincide with the playwright's birthday on 23 April, this lively, well-informed, and immensely enjoyable book by one of the most devoted and highly regarded of Shakespearians falls into that unique category: the Shakespeare masterwork. Clearly destined (and designed) to adorn the bookshelves of Shakespeare lovers, it contributes to the recent and ongoing shift in approach to Shakespeare's plays from literary text to dramas to be ...