This collection explores the astonishing variety of past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in Britain and on the international stage, in the context of theatrical and cultural history. A series of chronological chapters on the British performing tradition is followed by accounts of tragic and comic acting and of famous women performers. A substantial section on international staging includes touring theatre, political theatre and Shakespeare performance in America, Asia and Africa.
1. Shakespeare plays on Renaissance stages
2. Improving Shakespeare: from the Restoration to Garrick
3. Romantic Shakespeare
4. Pictorial Shakespeare
5. Reconstructive Shakespeare: reproducing Elizabethan
6. Twentieth-century performance: the Stratford and London companies
7. The tragic actor and Shakespeare
8. The comic actor and Shakespeare
9. Women and Shakespearean performance
10. International Shakespeare
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