Double Anatomy on Shakespeare’s Stage. English Renaissance Tragedies in the Early Modern Period and Today by Attila Kiss provides an in-depth analysis of the functioning of early modern theatre, with a special focus on Shakespeare’s tragedies and their stage realisations. The volume examines the connections between emblematic theatre and contemporary interpretations, while providing insight into the philosophical and social discourses underlying dramatic texts, which it ultimately projects onto today’s postmodern reality and, as a result, opens up new perspectives on both eras. This Hungarian scholarly work examines the stage performances of Shakespeare’s plays and their postmodern relevance in an extremely thorough and novel approach, connecting these two eras, which the author identifies as transitional periods. He does all this in a way that simultaneously offers something new to researchers of the early modern era and to laypeople interested in the world of Shakespeare. As a result, the author is able to address the uninitiated by involving the reader in an experiment and introducing a slice of each of the two aforementioned eras.
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How to cite:
Theatron 19, 1. sz. (2025): 134–140.
Cím/Title (HUN):
Test és szellem anatómiája médiumok és ismeretelméleti válságok tükrében (Kiss Attila: Kettős anatómia Shakespeare színpadán. Angol reneszánsz tragédiák a kora újkorban és ma)
Cím/Title (ENG):
Anatomy of Body and Soul in the Light of Mediums and Epistemological Crises (Review of Double Anatomy on Shakespeare’s Stage. English Renaissance Tragedies in the Early Modern Period and Today by Attila Kiss
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Keywords:
early modern, postmodern, predramatic theatre, Shakespeare, anatomy

