Superficially the outgrowth of teaching a graduate seminar in playwriting, where the author realized Shakespeare could provide all the answers to anyone’s questions, this book is really the distillation of a lifetime’s reading combined with an insider’s knowledge of the hard facts of the playwright’s life in the theater.

    Includes: Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore, and Gundling's Life. One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Müller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.

    In this book, Taplin looks for clues to Aeschylus's stagecraft in the texts of the plays themselves, analyzing the exits and entrances that occur throughout his works.