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Tables of Contents for Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Performance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
List of Contributors
ix
Editor's Preface
x
Edward J. Esche
Introduction
1
2
Shakespeare and Cultural Tourism
3
18
Dennis Kennedy
SHAKESPEARE ON FILM
21
30
The Recent Films
23
12
H.R. Coursen
(En)Gendering Desire in Performance: King Lear, Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Tadashi Suzuki's The Tale of Lear
35
16
Yoko Takakuwa
NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONTEXTS
51
96
Touring in Asia: The Miln Company's Shakespearean Productions in Japan
53
20
Kaori Kobayashi
Interculturalism or Indigenization: Modes of Exchange, Shakespeare East and West
73
16
Poonam Trivedi
Berlin--Zurich--Dusseldorf: Aspects of German Theatre During the Nazi Period and After
89
20
Wilhelm Hortmann
Gentlemen You Are Welcome to Elsinore: Hamlet in Performance at Kronborg Castle, Elsinore
109
12
Niels B. Hansen
Culture Clustering, Gender Crossing: Hamlet Meets Globalization in Robert Lepage's Elsinore
121
16
Nigel Wheale
`The Homestead of History': Shakespearean Medievalism on the Mid-Victorian Stage
137
10
Richard W. Schoch
RENAISSANCE CONTEXTS
147
92
Falstaff's Page as Early Modern Youth at Risk
149
12
Mark H. Lawhorn
Fashion, Nation and Theatre in Late Sixteenth-Century London
161
16
Janette Dillon
The Italian Job: The Poetics of Graced Performance in the Commedia dell' Arte and in Jonson's Humour Plays
177
14
Rocco Coronato
The True Physiognomy of a Man: Richard Tarlton and His Legend
191
20
Peter Thomson
`'Tis a pageant / To keep us in false gaze': Othello, Virtual History and the Jacobean Audience's Turkish Expectations
211
28
Mark Hutchings
FROM TEXT TO PERFORMANCE
239
80
Don Pedro, Don John and Don ... who? -- Noting a Stranger in Much Adoodle-do
241
20
Pamela Mason
`The Silent Griefs Which Cut the Heart Strings': John Ford's The Broken Heart in Performance
261
14
Kristin Crouch
Cunning with Pistols: Observations on Gale Edward's 1996--7 RSC Production of John Webster's The White Devil
275
18
Nick Tippler
The Nineteenth-Century Productions of A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608)
293
12
Barry Gaines
The Magnetic Lady: Is the Unperformed Performable?
305
14
Peter Happe
FEMALE ROLES
319
38
`A Woman's generall: what should we feare?': Queen Margaret Thatcherized in Recent Productions of 3 Henry VI
321
18
Randall Martin
The Disappearing Queen: Looking for Isabel in Henry V
339
18
Diana E. Henderson
Index
357