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Kiernan, Pauline, review of Philip Davis, Sudden Shakespeare: The Shaping of Shakespeare's Creative Thought, in Eighteenth-Century Lexis and Lexicography, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 28.1 (1998)), pp. 306–07, doi:10.2307/3508782

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Kiernan, Pauline, review of Peter B. Murray, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons: The Psychology of Role-Playing and Acting, in The Text as Evidence: Revising Editorial Principles, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 29.1 (1999)), pp. 293–94, doi:10.2307/3508969

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Kiernan, Pauline, review of Michael W. Shurgot, Stages of Play: Shakespeare's Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance, in Modern Language Review, 95.3 (2000), pp. 801–03, doi:10.2307/3735512