Description: Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing only a single character's speeches and cues. This collaboration of theatre history with literary criticism captures Shakespeare's development as a writer, showing how scripting and acting work together to produce characters of unprecedented immediacy.
Review Quotes: "Stunningly fresh and rewarding...A pathbreaking study, and it is bound to rejuvenate the debate about whether, or rather to what extent, Shakespeare wrote with readers of print in mind." --Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
"A ground-breaking book." --The New Criterion