Abstract
sis of the Shakespearean original but offers instead a series of allusions to that original, so that at least a part of the audience's experience consists in recalling the larger contexts to which the theatrical performance alludes. I propose as the name for this genre of plays the term shadows, Theseus' name for the mechanicals' version of Pyramus and Thisbe. In either case, the audience's imagination is expected to amend them. There is one modern playwright who has recognized this genre and made it peculiarly his own. I am thinking of the author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which may be considered the twentieth-century shadow of Hamlet. More recently Stoppard has given us the brilliantly entertaining Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth, which between them say perhaps all there is to say about the genre I have tried to define.
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