Alternative History of Shakespearean Acting

Sally Barnden is Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University, UK.Emer McHugh is Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, UK.Miranda Fay Thomas is Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

• List of Illustrations Introduction: Who is a Shakespearean Actor? – Sally Barnden (Swansea University, UK), Emer McHugh (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Part I: Constructing the Figure of the Shakespearean Actor1. A Local Habitation and Unnamed?: (Partially) Recovering the Local, Plural ‘Shakespearean Actor’ – Kim Gilchrist (Cardiff University, UK) 2. Black Shakespeareans in Colonial Zimbabwe – Eli Cumings (Columbia University, USA)3. The Deaf Shakespearean Actor – Jill Bradbury (University of Maryland, USA)4. ‘Imperfect Speakers’: Speechless Shakespeare in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More – Ilana Gilovich (Independent Scholar)Part II: Intergenerational Solidarity 5. The Shakespearean Actor as Cultural Ambassador: Edric Connor in Pericles (1958) – Jim Taylor, (Independent Scholar)6. ‘Mr Macready in little’: Charlotte Cushman, William Charles Macready, and Shakespearean Mentorship – Alexandra E. LaGrand (Texas A&M University, USA)7. Speaking Shakespeare: Naseeruddin Shah and the Case for Indian Shakespeares – Niyanta Sangal (University of Maryland, USA)Part III: ‘Shakespearean’ Bodies 8. The Shakespearean Actress and the Last Fuckable Day – Valerie M. Fazel (Arizona State University, USA) and Louise Geddes (Adelphi University, USA)9. The Actor’s Imagination: Hindi Cinema, Shakespeare, and Intimacy in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider – Anita Raychawdhuri (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)10.Camp Stylization, Queer Politics and the Shakespearean Actor – Adele Lee (Emerson College, USA)11. Disability and the Great Tragedian: Kemble, Kean and Richard III – Essaka Joshua (University of Notre Dame, USA)Part IV: Alternative Narratives12. Novelty Acts: A Scattered History of the First Cross-Dressed Hamlets – Madeleine Saidenberg (University of Oxford, UK)13. The Disabled Shakespearean Actor Nadia Albina: A Case Study – Kelsey Ridge (Alvernia University, USA) 14. ‘Tell me what scares you’: On Brave Space and Black and White Masculinities in Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor – Jamie Paris (University of Manitoba, Canada)Index