Abstract

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.

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