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English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s

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OK, so he has a bad hairstyle much like Shakespeare's. But man he can write -- this book contains some of the best prose about live Shakespeare since Ken Tynan took his last spanking. A rich, appreciative book that shows why Shakespeare still matters and how his plays are best used, and a priceless document of theatre history.

If one wishes to know why Shakespeare matters and how Shakespeare has been performed in England over the past decade, one would do well to read this book, and read it again and again. If nothing else, one also learns a great deal from the book's beautiful prose and lucid arguments.

Spawning forth from the new breed of cloned critics, Peter Holland IS William Shakespeare. Working alongside the man who gave the world Dolly the Sheep, Holland has altered his genetic code to that of Shakespeare, gleaned from the first folio of one Shakey's toenails. Holland (hereafter known as Shax90) tours around various theatre bars and gives the definitive account of what it is like to be the reborn Bard in fin-de-siecle Nineties Britain. Foreword by Tony Blair.