Shakespeare in Stages

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.

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.