Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance

Peter Kirwan is Associate Professor of Early Modern Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. His books include Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha (2015) and the co-edited collections Shakespeare and the Digital World (with Christie Carson, 2014) and Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (with Emma Depledge, 2017). He is Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin, Book Reviews Editor for Early Theatre and Editions Reviewer for Shakespeare Survey.Kathryn Prince is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Ottawa, Canada, as well as the General Editor of Shakespeare Bulletin. Her recent books include Performing Early Modern Drama Today (with Pascale Aebischer, 2012), History, Memory, Performance (with David Dean and Yana Meerzon, 2014), and Shakespeare and Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves (with Irena Makaryk, 2016).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPeter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada)Part 1: Research Methods and Problems1.1 The Archive: Show Reporting ShakespeareRob Conkie (La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia)1.2 The Audience: Receiving and Remaking ExperienceMargaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada)1.3 The Event: Festival ShakespearePaul Prescott (University of Warwick, UK)Part 2: Current Research and Issues2.1 Original Practices: Old Ways and New DirectionsSarah Dustagheer (University of Kent, UK)2.2 Space: Locus and Platea in Modern Shakespearean PerformanceStephen Purcell (University of Warwick, UK)2.3 Economics: Shakespeare Performing CitiesSusan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada)2.4 Networks: Researching Global ShakespeareSonia Massai (King's College London, UK)2.5 Global Mediations: Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Global and Digital CulturesAlexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)2.6 Canon: Framing Not-Shakespeare PerformanceEoin Price (Swansea University, UK)2.7 Pedagogy: Decolonizing Shakespeare on StageAndrew James Hartley (UNC Charlotte, USA), Kaja Dunn (UNC Charlotte, USA) and Christopher Berry (Black Theatre Network & Black Arts Institute)2.8 Ethics: Practising Diversity at the Stratford Festival of Canada: Shakespeare, Performance and Ethics in the Twenty-First CenturyErin Julian (University of Roehampton London/King's College London, UK) and Kim Solga (Western University, Canada)2.9 Bodies: Gender, Race, Ability and the Shakespearean StageRoberta Barker (Dalhousie University, Canada)2.10 Technology: The Desire Called Cinema: Materiality, Biopolitics, and Post-Anthropocentric Feminism in Julie Taymor’s The TempestCourtney Lehmann (University of the Pacific, USA)Part 3: New Directions in Shakespeare and PerformanceCurated by C. K. Ash (Independent researcher) and Nora J. Williams (University of Essex, UK)3.1 Anne G. Morgan3.2 Jatinder Verma3.3 Judith Greenwood3.4 Dan Bray and Colleen MacIsaac3.5 Migdalia Cruz3.6 Lisa Wolpe3.7 Julia Nish-Lapidus and James Wallis3.8 Ravi Jain3.9 Emma Whipday3.10 Wole Oguntokun3.11 Vishal Bhardwaj3.12 Adam Cunis3.13 James Loehlin3.14 Denice Hicks3.15 @Shakespeare3.16 Jung-ung YangPart 4: Resources for Researchers4.1 A Fifty-Year History of Performance CriticismJames C. Bulman (Allegheny College, USA)4.2 A-Z of Key TermsBríd Phillips (University of Western Australia, Australia), with Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada)4.3 Annotated BibliographyKarin Brown (University of Birmingham, UK), Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada)4.4 ResourcesPeter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) and Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada)Index

A major new volume in Shakespeare studies … this research handbook is truly triumphant: Kirwan and Prince have produced an indispensable volume for researchers at all levels.