List of illustrations; 1. Shakespeare played small: three speculations about the body Dennis Kennedy; 2. The architecture of the Fortune playhouse John Orrell; 3. The bare Island Andrew Gurr; 4. 'How chances it they travel?': provincial touring, playing places, and the King's Men Alan Somerset; 5. Writing for the metropolis: illegitimate performances of Shakespeare in early nineteenth-century London Jane Moody; 6. The perishable body of the unpoetic: A. C. Bradley performs Othello Mark Gauntlett; 7. Playing places for Shakespeare: the Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich Franklin J. Hildy; 8. 'A fairly average sort of place': Shakespeare in Northampton, 1927–1987 Richard Foulkes; 9. The living monument: self and stage in the criticism and scholarship of M. C. Bradbrook J. R. Mulryne; 10. Stratford stages: interviews with Michael Reardon and Tim Furby, and Sam Mendes Peter Holland; 11. Dis-covering the female body: erotic exploration in Elizabethan poetry Werner Von Koppenfels; 12. Theseus' shadows in A Midsummer Night's Dream Peter Holland; 13. 'Time for such a word': verbal echoing in Macbeth George Walton Williams; 14. Shakespeare's knowledge of Italian Naseeb Shaheen; 15. Tamburlaine and Edward Alleyn's Ring S. P. Cerasano; 16. Shakespeare performances in England, 1992–1993 Peter Holland; 17. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 1992 Niky Rathbone; 18. The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies David Lindley, Martin Wiggins and H. R. Woudhuysen; Books received; Index.
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"Somerset's case is a compelling one....One hopes that others will follow in Somerset's footsteps, challenging the still dominant assumption that the London public and private theaters fully represent the drama of the nation." SEL
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