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

"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

• 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