Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories Book

List of illustrations ix

Notes on contributors xi

Acknowledgements xvi

Introduction Christine Dymkowski Christie Carson 1

Part I Notions of Authenticity 5

1 The move indoors Andrew Gurr 7

2 Whig heroics: Shakespeare, Cibber, and the troublesome King John Elaine M. McGirr 22

3 Coriolanus and the (in) authenticities of William Poel's platform stage Lucy Munro 37

4 'A fresh advance in Shakespearean production': Tyrone Guthrie in Canada Neil Carson 57

5 Authenticity in the twenty-first century: Propeller and Shakespeare's Globe Abigail Rokison 71

Part II Attitudes Towards Sex and Gender 91

6 Performing beauty on the Renaissance stage Farah Karim-Cooper 93

7 The artistic, cultural, and economic power of the actress in the age of Garrick Fiona Ritchie 107

8 Women writing Shakespeare's women in the nineteenth century: The Winters Tale Jan McDonald 124

9 'Not our Olivia': Lydia Lopokova and Twelfth Night Elizabeth Schafer 144

10 Measure for Measure: Shakespeare's twentieth-century play Christine Dymkowski 164

Part III Questions of Identity 185

11 Shakespeare and the rhetoric of scenography 1770-1825 Christopher Baugh 187

12 The presence of Shakespeare Susan Bennett 210

13 Finding local habitation: Shakespeare's Dream at play on the stage of contemporary Australia Kate Flaherty Penny Gay 229

14 'Haply for I am black': shifting race and gender dynamics in Talawa's Othello Lynette Goddard 248

15 British directors in post-colonial South Africa Brian Pearce 264

Epilogue Shakespeare's audiences as imaginative communities Christie Carson 277

Index 293