Shakespeare in stages : new theatre histories / edited by Christine Dymkowski and Christie Carson. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010. - xvi, 306 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The move indoors / Andrew Gurr -- Whig heroics: Shakespeare, Cibber, and the troublesome King John / Elaine M. McGirr -- Coriolanus and the (in)authenticities of William Poel's platform stage / Lucy Munro -- 'A fresh advance in Shakespearean production': Tyrone Guthrie in Canada / Neil Carson -- Authenticity in the twenty-first century: Propeller and Shakespeare's Globe / Abigail Rokison -- Performing beauty on the Renaissance stage / Farah Karim-Cooper -- The artistic, cultural, and economic power of the actress in the age of Garrick / Fiona Ritchie -- Women writing Shakespeare's women in the nineteenth century: The winter's tale / Jan McDonald -- 'Not our Olivia': Lydia Lopokova and Twelfth night / Elizabeth Schafer -- Measure for Measure: Shakespeare's twentieth-century play / Christine Dymkowski -- Shakespeare and the rhetoric of scenography 1770-1825 / Christopher Baugh -- The presence of Shakespeare / Susan Bennett -- Finding local habitation: Shakespeare's Dream at play on the stage of contemporary Australia / Kate Flaherty and Penny Gay -- 'Haply for I am black': shifting race and gender dynamics in Talawa's Othello / Lynette Goddard -- British directors in post-colonial South Africa / Brian Pearce Epilogue: Shakespeare's audiences as imaginative communities / Christie Carson.

9780521884792 (hbk.)


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Stage history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Dramatic production.

792.95 / SHA 2010