Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance

Edward J. Esche

Contents: Introduction: Shakespeare and cultural tourism, Dennis Kennedy; Shakespeare on Film: The recent films, H.R. Coursen; (En)gendering desire in performance: King Lear, Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and Tadashi Suzuki’s The Tale of Lear, Yoko Takakuwa; Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Contexts: Touring in Asia: the Miln Company’s Shakespearean productions in Japan, Kaori Kobayashi; Interculturalism or indigenization: modes of exchange, Shakespeare east and west, Poonam Trivedi; Berlin-Zürich-Düsseldorf: Aspects of German theatre during the Nazi period and after, Wilhelm Hortmann; Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore: Hamlet in performance at Kronborg castle, Elsinore, Neils B. Hansen; Culture clustering, gender crossing: Hamlet meets globalization in Robert Lepage’s Elsinore, Nigel Wheale; The ’homestead of history’: Shakespearean medievalism on the mid-Victorian stage, Richard W. Schoch; Renaissance Contexts: Falstaff’s page as early modern youth at risk, Mark H. Lawhorn; Fashion, nation and theatre in late-sixteenth-century London, Janette Dillon; The Italian job: the poetics of graced performance in the Commedia dell’Arte and in Jonson’s humour plays, Rocco Coronato; The true physiognomy of a man: Richard Tarlton and his legend, Peter Thomson; ’’Tis a pageant/To keep us in false gaze’: Othello, virtual history, and the Jacobean audience’s Turkish expectations, Mark Hutchings; From Text to Performance: Don Pedro, Don John and Don...who? - Noting a stranger in Much Adoodle-do, Pamela Mason; ’The Silent Griefs Which Cut the Heart Strings’: John Ford’s The Broken Heart in performance, Kristin Crouch; Cunning with pistols: observations on Gale Edwards’s 1996-7 RSC production of John Webster’s The White Devil, Nick Tippler; The 19th-century productions of A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608), Barry Gaines; The Magnetick Lady: is the unperformed performable? Peter Happé;Female Roles: ’A Woman’s generall: what should we feare?’: Queen Ma