Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- (Grass)Root and (Tree)Branch: Building Community in the Early Modern Ensemble Training Model
- Fat Ham and the Problem of Community
- Shakespeare under the Hood: Teaching, Researching and Learning Shakespeare from Within
- Mind’s Eye: Audio-described Shakespeare
- ‘The New Map with the Augmentation of the Indies’: Geographical Knowledge Communities at the Inns of Court and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Music and Drama at the Early Modern Inns of Court: Twelfth Night and Hyde Park
- Reimagining the Community: A Transatlantic Tale of Two Scholars
- ‘To Be or Not to Be in Ukraine’: Ruining Shakespeare and Rebuilding Communities in H-Effect and The Hamlet Syndrome
- Red Kabuki Actors Perform Shakespeare in Occupied Japan (1945–1952): Zenshinza’s ‘Theatre for Young People’
- ‘Unrespective Boys’: The Formation and Betrayal of Child Peer Communities in Richard III
- ‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V
- ‘Necessity Has No Law’: Justice and Affective Communities in 2 Henry VI
- The BBC’s Television Adaptations of Henry VI and Britain’s National Identity Crises
- A Lion, an Ass, a Dog and a Wall: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Ecological Theatricality
- Hitchcock’s Hamlet
- German Hermeneutics of Racecraft in Thomas Ostermeier’s Othello (2010)
- ‘Bloody Creditor[s]’ and the Blood-Money Metaphor in The Merchant of Venice
- ‘And Now Let Me Alone to End the Tragedy’: Othello, Comedy and Candlelight in John Fletcher’s Women Pleased
- Power, Horology and Imperial Doubt: Reimagining Time in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- ‘By the Book’: Source Study and the Plot of Romeo and Juliet
- War, Hunger and Gluttony in Shakespeare’s English Histories: Sir John Oldcastle and Jack Cade
- Some Deeper Thing: Visualizing Complexity in Hamlet through the Pyrrhus Speech
- Lucrece and Leonard Becket, 1614–1633
- Audio Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2024 London Productions, 2024
- Productions Outside London, 2024
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the UK, January–December 2023
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 78
- Index
- References
The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- (Grass)Root and (Tree)Branch: Building Community in the Early Modern Ensemble Training Model
- Fat Ham and the Problem of Community
- Shakespeare under the Hood: Teaching, Researching and Learning Shakespeare from Within
- Mind’s Eye: Audio-described Shakespeare
- ‘The New Map with the Augmentation of the Indies’: Geographical Knowledge Communities at the Inns of Court and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Music and Drama at the Early Modern Inns of Court: Twelfth Night and Hyde Park
- Reimagining the Community: A Transatlantic Tale of Two Scholars
- ‘To Be or Not to Be in Ukraine’: Ruining Shakespeare and Rebuilding Communities in H-Effect and The Hamlet Syndrome
- Red Kabuki Actors Perform Shakespeare in Occupied Japan (1945–1952): Zenshinza’s ‘Theatre for Young People’
- ‘Unrespective Boys’: The Formation and Betrayal of Child Peer Communities in Richard III
- ‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V
- ‘Necessity Has No Law’: Justice and Affective Communities in 2 Henry VI
- The BBC’s Television Adaptations of Henry VI and Britain’s National Identity Crises
- A Lion, an Ass, a Dog and a Wall: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Ecological Theatricality
- Hitchcock’s Hamlet
- German Hermeneutics of Racecraft in Thomas Ostermeier’s Othello (2010)
- ‘Bloody Creditor[s]’ and the Blood-Money Metaphor in The Merchant of Venice
- ‘And Now Let Me Alone to End the Tragedy’: Othello, Comedy and Candlelight in John Fletcher’s Women Pleased
- Power, Horology and Imperial Doubt: Reimagining Time in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- ‘By the Book’: Source Study and the Plot of Romeo and Juliet
- War, Hunger and Gluttony in Shakespeare’s English Histories: Sir John Oldcastle and Jack Cade
- Some Deeper Thing: Visualizing Complexity in Hamlet through the Pyrrhus Speech
- Lucrece and Leonard Becket, 1614–1633
- Audio Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2024 London Productions, 2024
- Productions Outside London, 2024
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the UK, January–December 2023
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 78
- Index
- References
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