Performing Restoration Shakespeare

Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University, is a cultural historian and musicologist specializing in British music and drama. She was the Co-Investigator for the AHRC research project Performing Restoration Shakespeare. Her most recent book is Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Claude Fretz is Associate Professor of Shakespeare and early modern literature at Sun Yat-sen University (China). He is also Fellow of the research centre 'European Dream-Cultures' at Saarland University (Germany). He is the author of Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres (2020), and he has published various journal articles and book chapters on Shakespeare, early modern literature, representations of dreams and sleep in the Renaissance, modern theatre practice, and Restoration drama. Richard Schoch is Professor of Drama at Queen's University Belfast, where he was Principal Investigator for the research project Performing Restoration Shakespeare. His most recent books are A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance (2021) and Writing the History of the British Stage (2016), both published by Cambridge University Press.

• Introduction: new Shakespeare for a new era Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Claude Fretz, and Richard Schoch; Part I. Documents of Performance: 1. From boards to books: the circulation of Shakespearean songs in manuscript and print during the interregnum Sarah Ledwidge; 2. Heroic Shakespeare at Lincoln's Inn fields Stephen Watkins; 3. More than a song and dance? Identifying Matthew Locke's incidental music for Macbeth Silas Wollston; Part II. Performance History and Performance Now: 4. Cross-Dressing in restoration Shakespeare: Twelfth night and the tempest Fiona Ritchie; 5. Performing restoration Shakespeare in the eighteenth century James Harriman-Smith; 6. An actor's perspective on restoration Shakespeare Louis Butelli; 7. Staging restoration Shakespeare with restoration music Robert Eisenstein; Part III. Practice-Based Research: 8. Davenant's lady Macduff and the subversion of normative femininity in twenty-first-century performance Sara Reimers; 9. Facts as ideas: the theatricalization of scholarship Kate Eastwood Norris; 10. Syncopated time: taging the restoration tempest Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch.

'Long simply reviled for the abominable crime of tampering with Shakespeare, the Restoration's approach to Shakespeare in performance is ripe for re-assessment. This excellent collection explores the complexities of a theatre culture radically different from Shakespeare's own and yet in many ways intriguingly continuous with ours.' Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame