Philippa Kelly is Resident Dramaturg at the California Shakespeare Theater and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is also Senior Chair at the Endeavour Foundation. Her research has received the support of the Fulbright, Rockerfeller and Walter and Eliza Hall foundations as well as the Australian Research Council.

• Introduction: 'Speak What We Feel, Not What We Ought to Say'; 1. Fathers and Mothers; 2. Twenty Years Have Passed; 3. Playing the Fool; 4. Polemics; 5. The Meaning of Words: Changing the Stage; 6. Age is Unnecessary; 7. The Man as the King, the King in the Man; Bibliography; Index.

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