Selection of papers from an international conference held at St. John's College, Cambridge in August 1997. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Editor's preface / Edward J. Esche -- Introduction: Shakespeare and cultural tourism / Dennis Kennedy -- Shakespeare on film. 1. The recent films / H.R. Coursen ; 2. (En)gendering desire in performance: King Lear, Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Tadashi Suzuki's The tale of Lear / Yoko Takakuwa -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century contexts. 3. Touring in Asia: The Miln Company's Shakespearean productions in Japan / Kaori Kobayashi ; 4. Interculturalism or indigenization: Modes of exchange, Shakespeare East and West / Poonam Trivedi ; 5. Berlin-Zürich-Düsseldorf: Aspects of German theatre during the Nazi period and after / Wilhelm Hortmann ; 6. Gentlemen you are welcome to Elsinore: Hamlet in performance at Kronborg Castle, Elsinore / Niels B. Hansen ; 7. Culture clustering, gender crossing: Hamlet meets globalization in Robert Lepage's Elsinore / Nigel Wheale ; 8. 'The homestead of history': Shakespearean medievalism on the mid-Victorian stage / Richard W. Schoch -- Renaissance contexts. 9. Falstaff's page as early modern youth at risk / Mark H. Lawhorn ; 10. Fashion, nation and theatre in late sixteenth-century London / Janette Dillon ; 11. The Italian job: the poetics of graced performance in the Commedia dell'arte and in Jonson's Humour plays / Rocco Coronato ; 12. The true physiognomy of a man: Richard Tarlton and his legend / Peter Thomson ; 13. ''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. 14. Don Pedro, Don John and Don ... who? - noting a stranger in Much adoodle-do / Pamela Mason ; 15. 'The silent griefs which cut the heart strings': John Ford's The broken heart in performance / Kristin Crouch ; 16. Cunning with pistols: observations on Gale Edwards's 1996-7 RSC production of John Webster's The white devil / Nick Tippler ; 17. The nineteenth-century productions of A Yorkshire tragedy (1608) / Barry Gaines ; 18. The magnetick lady: is the unperformed performable? / Peter Happé -- Female roles. 10. 'A woman's generall: what should we feare?': Queen Margaret thatcherized in recent productions of 3 Henry VI / Randall Martin ; 20. The disappearing queen: looking for Isabel in Henry V / Diana E. Henderson -- Index.
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