Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.

"Sonya Freeman Loftis's Shakespeare's Surrogates: Rewriting Renaissance Drama is a strong collection of essays describing the various ways that Shakespeare is embodied and engaged on the modern drama stage." - Francesca Coppa, Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, USA

Autorentext
Sonya Freeman Loftis is an Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at Morehouse College.

Inhalt
Introduction: Attacking the Canon through the Corpse 1. 'Blaming the Bard': Shaw, Shakespeare, Shotover 2. Tearing the Skin off of History: Brecht and the Early Modern Body 3. 'To face my dead at last': The Personal and Literary Ghosts of Long Day's Journey into Night 4. 'Some Remains': Forgetting Shakespeare in Endgame and Happy Day s 5. 'A bit of Shakespeare': The Playwright and the Player in Stoppard's Shakespearean Adaptations 6. 'A mother's womb is not a one-way street': Re-entering the Shakespearean Womb of Hamletmachine