Studio Shakespeare: the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place

A highpoint is a fascin -ating argument from intellectual history showing why it was around 1800 that Hamlet acquired his murky and unconscious inner drives: they helped explain his wicked plot to damn Claudiuss soul by deferring revenge until the king was steeped in unconfessed sins. Anyone, at any level, interested in how drama engages with models of the mind will bene fit from its authors combination of sophisticated and sensitive close reading with compendious knowledge of the his -tory of ideas and criticism.gabriel egan doi: 10.1017/s0266464x0725033x Alycia Smith-HowardStudio Shakespeare: the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. Smith-Howard raises important questions about Goodbodys career and in particular emphasizes the pressure on Goodbody as a feminist wanting to work with Shakespeare, and indeed with the mainstream; for some of her sisters-in-arms, working for a hoary old patriarch like Shake speare was selling out, while for some of of her colleagues at the RSC her overt political commitment and inter -est in alternative theatres was just plain odd.