Shakespeare in Stages : New Theatre Histories (Hardcover)

Introduction Christine Dymkowski and Christie Carson; Part I. Notions of Authenticity: 1. The move indoors Andrew Gurr; 2. Whig heroics: Shakespeare, Cibber, and the troublesome King John Elaine M. McGirr; 3. Coriolanus and the (in)authenticities of William Poel's platform stage Lucy Munro; 4. 'A fresh advance in Shakespearean production': Tyrone Guthrie in Canada Neil Carson; 5. Authenticity in the 21st century: Propeller and Shakespeare's Globe Abigail Rokison; Part II. Attitudes Towards Sex and Gender: 6. Performing beauty on the Renaissance stage Farah Karim-Cooper; 7. The artistic, cultural, and economic power of the actress in the age of Garrick Fiona Ritchie; 8. Women writing Shakespeare's women in the nineteenth century: The Winter's Tale Jan McDonald; 9. 'Not our Olivia': Lydia Lopokova and Twelfth Night Elizabeth Schafer; 10. Measure for Measure: Shakespeare's twentieth-century play Christine Dymkowski; Part III. Questions of Identity: 11. Shakespeare and the rhetoric of scenography 1770?1825 Christopher Baugh; 12. The presence of Shakespeare Susan Bennett; 13. Finding local habitation: Shakespeare's Dream at play on the stage of contemporary Australia Kate Flaherty and Penny Gay; 14. 'Haply for I am black': shifting race and gender dynamics in Talawa's Othello Lynette Goddard; 15. British directors in post-colonial South Africa Brian Pearce; Epilogue: Shakespeare's audiences as imaginative communities Christie Carson.