Ivo van Hove

Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her books include Theatre Audiences (1997), Performing Nostalgia (1996) and Theatre & Museums (2013). Recent edited collections are Shakespeare Beyond English (co-edited with Christie Carson, 2013) and Performing Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval & Early Modern Drama (co-edited with Mary Polito, 2014). She is series editor, with Kim Solga, for Theory for Theatre Studies (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama). Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King's College London, UK. Her publications include her book, Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007), and World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance (2005), and critical editions of The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 ( 2014) and John Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore for Arden Early Modern Drama (2011).

List of Illustrations
Colour Plates
Notes on Contributors
Foreword, "My Life in Theatre" by Ivo van Hove
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section One: Directing the Classics
Section Two: The Festival Performances of Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Section Three: American Theatre
Section Four: Opera across Europe
Section Five: Creation, Adaptation, Direction
Selected Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index