Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture
Andregg provides an eloquent illustration of how, when Welles scholarship is at its best, it avoids the biographical and panoramic in favor of a particular theme or angle of investigation and, in the course of pursuing that angle, brings a fresh understanding to the Wellesian tapestry as a whole.(Catherine BenamouMichigan Quarterly Review)A valuable and much-needed contribution to Welles studies. Anderegg's book represents for me an important intervention that throws light not only on certain neglected aspects of Welles's work -- particullarlyEverybody's Shakespeareand the Mercury Text Records -- but also on a fresh new approach toward understanding his career as a whole.(Jonathan Rosenbaum, editor ofThis is Orson Welles)