Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories »

Christine Dymkowski is Professor of Drama and Theatre History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Christie Carson is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Sixteen original case studies explore significant English-speaking performances of a range of Shakespeare's plays, from the 16th to the 21st centuries.

List of illustrations ix

Notes on contributors xi

Acknowledgements xvi

Introduction Christine Dymkowski Christie Carson 1

Part I Notions of Authenticity 5

1 The move indoors Andrew Gurr 7

2 Whig heroics: Shakespeare, Cibber, and the troublesome King John Elaine M. McGirr 22

3 Coriolanus and the (in) authenticities of William Poel's platform stage Lucy Munro 37

4 'A fresh advance in Shakespearean production': Tyrone Guthrie in Canada Neil Carson 57

5 Authenticity in the twenty-first century: Propeller and Shakespeare's Globe Abigail Rokison 71

Part II Attitudes Towards Sex and Gender 91

6 Performing beauty on the Renaissance stage Farah Karim-Cooper 93

7 The artistic, cultural, and economic power of the actress in the age of Garrick Fiona Ritchie 107

8 Women writing Shakespeare's women in the nineteenth century: The Winters Tale Jan McDonald 124

9 'Not our Olivia': Lydia Lopokova and Twelfth Night Elizabeth Schafer 144

10 Measure for Measure: Shakespeare's twentieth-century play Christine Dymkowski 164

Part III Questions of Identity 185

11 Shakespeare and the rhetoric of scenography 1770-1825 Christopher Baugh 187

12 The presence of Shakespeare Susan Bennett 210

13 Finding local habitation: Shakespeare's Dream at play on the stage of contemporary Australia Kate Flaherty Penny Gay 229

14 'Haply for I am black': shifting race and gender dynamics in Talawa's Othello Lynette Goddard 248

15 British directors in post-colonial South Africa Brian Pearce 264

Epilogue Shakespeare's audiences as imaginative communities Christie Carson 277

Index 293