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There is certainly much to welcome in this new study of Hamlet's afterlives... White writes with real felicity, and he has done us all a service in providing so much useful information so intriguingly packaged... This is a hugely worthwhile and abundantly provocative book. Renaissance Quarterly Revolution, rebellion, absurdism, the right to mourn: these are all expressions of Shakespeare's Hamlet. But in R.S. White'sAvant -Garde Hamlet, the author doesn't posit these as expository universal qualities: rather they are driving energies, powering productions in a diversity of ways that makes each production real, vital, experimental, worth staging for more than the power of the beautiful meditations therein. A recent review of The Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet suggested: 'When companies approach Shakespeare without a clearly defined vision or a genuinely contemporary take on the text, it makes the very notion of the Bard's 'universal truths' look increasingly tenuous.' R.S. White knows this, and he infuses his understanding of it into the very architecture, the living blood-flow, of Avant Garde Hamlet. In his hands, Hamlet is ever-now, ever-new. -- Philippa Kelly, Author of The King and I, Shakespeare Now! Series

Revolution, rebellion, absurdism, the right to mourn: these are all expressions of Shakespeare's Hamlet. But in R.S. White'sAvant -Garde Hamlet, the author doesn't posit these as expository universal qualities: rather they are driving energies, powering productions in a diversity of ways that makes each production real, vital, experimental, worth staging for more than the power of the beautiful meditations therein. A recent review of The Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet suggested: 'When companies approach Shakespeare without a clearly defined vision or a genuinely contemporary take on the text, it makes the very notion of the Bard's 'universal truths' look increasingly tenuous.' R.S. White knows this, and he infuses his understanding of it into the very architecture, the living blood-flow, of Avant Garde Hamlet. In his hands, Hamlet is ever-now, ever-new. -- Philippa Kelly, Author of The King and I, Shakespeare Now! Series

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R. S. White is a chief investigator for the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia. He is author of John Keats: A Literary Life.

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