Shakespeare and Creative Criticism

Rob Conkie is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at La Trobe University. His teaching and research integrate practical and theoretical approaches to Shakespeare in performance. He is the author of Writing Performative Shakespeares: New Forms for Performance Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Globe Theatre Project: Shakespeare and Authenticity (Edwin Mellen, 2006). He has directed about a third of the Shakespeare canon for the stage.

Editorial

Graham Holderness



Introduction: Creative Critical Shakespeares

Rob Conkie and Scott Maisano



Chapter 1. Responses to Responses to Shakespeare’s Sonnets: More Sonnets

Matthew Zarnowiecki



Chapter 2. Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe

Kavita Mudan Finn and Jessica McCall



Chapter 3. A Merry Midsummer Labor Merchant’s Tempest in King Beatrice’s Verona

Jessica McCall



Chapter 4. Pickled Red Herring

Kavita Mudan Finn



Chapter 5. Enter Nurse, or Love’s Labour’s Won

Scott Maisano



Chapter 6. Echo and Narcissus, or, Man O Man!

Mary Baine Campbell



Chapter 7. The Fair Maid of Alexandria, or The Glass Tower

Dan Moss



Chapter 8. A Tragedy of the Plantation of Virginia

David Nicol



Chapter 9. Othello, Original Practices: A Photographic Essay

Rob Conkie