Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies (1986), coeditor, with Margreta de Grazia, of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2001), co-author of William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (1987) and author of Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life (1995).
List of illustrations
Preface
1. Shakespeare plays on Renaissance stages Gary Taylor
2. Improving Shakespeare: from the Restoration to Garrick Jean I. Marsden
3. Romantic Shakespeare Jane Moody
4. Pictorial Shakespeare Richard W. Schoch
5. Reconstructive Shakespeare: reproducing Elizabethan and Jacobean stages Marion O'Connor
6. Twentieth-century performance: the Stratford and London companies Robert Smallwood
7. The tragic actor and Shakespeare Simon Williams
8. The comic actor and Shakespeare Peter Thomson
9. Women and Shakespearean performance Penny Gay
10. International Shakespeare Anthony B. Dawson
11. Touring Shakespeare Peter Holland
12. Shakespeare on the political stage in the twentieth century Wilhelm Hortmann
13. Shakespeare in North America Michael A. Morrison
14. Shakespeare on the stages of Asia John Gillies, Ryuta Minami, Ruru Li and Poonam Trivedi
15. Shakespeare and Africa Martin Banham, Roshni Mooneeram and Jane Plastow
Further reading
Index.
List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Shakespeare plays on Renaissance stages Gary Taylor; 2. Improving Shakespeare: from the Restoration to Garrick Jean I. Marsden; 3. Romantic Shakespeare Jane Moody; 4. Pictorial Shakespeare Richard W. Schoch; 5. Reconstructive Shakespeare: reproducing Elizabethan and Jacobean stages Marion O'Connor; 6. Twentieth-century performance: the Stratford and London companies Robert Smallwood; 7. The tragic actor and Shakespeare Simon Williams; 8. The comic actor and Shakespeare Peter Thomson; 9. Women and Shakespearean performance Penny Gay; 10. International Shakespeare Anthony B. Dawson; 11. Touring Shakespeare Peter Holland; 12. Shakespeare on the political stage in the twentieth century Wilhelm Hortmann; 13. Shakespeare in North America Michael A. Morrison; 14. Shakespeare on the stages of Asia John Gillies, Ryuta Minami, Ruru Li and Poonam Trivedi; 15. Shakespeare and Africa Martin Banham, Roshni Mooneeram and Jane Plastow; Further reading; Index.
