Shakespeare and Modern Theatre

Michael Bristol, Kathleen McLuskie, Christopher Holmes

List of contributors, General editor’s preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Modernity, modernism and postmodernism in the twentieth-century’s Shakespeare, 2 ‘To kill a king’: the modern politics of birdicide, 3 The problem of professionalism in twentieth-century stagings of Hamlet, 4 Translation at the intersections of history, 5 Women’s work and the performance of Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company, 6 Shakespearean performativity, 7 Heresies of style: some paradoxes of Soviet Ukrainian modernism, 8 ‘Lice in fur’: the aesthetics of cheek and Shakespearean production strategy, Bibliography, Index