Richard Dutton is Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State UniversityAlison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the University of LancasterRichard Wilson is Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrations 1. Introduction2. "The useless dearness of the diamond": patronage theatre and households – Suzanne Westfall3. The management of mirth: Shakepeare via Bourdieu – Richard Wilson4. Between astrology and adolatry: modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet – Phillipa Berry5. Country house, Catholicity and the cryptic in Twelfth Night – Anne Lecercle6. Recusancy, festivity and community: The Simpsons at Gowlthwaite Hall – Phebe Jensen7. Suicide at the elephant and castle or, did the lady vanish? Alternative endings for early modern women writers – Marion Wynne Davies8. Shakespeare and Lancaster – Richard Dutton9. The Shireburnes of Stonyhurst: memory and survival in a Lancashire Catholic recusant family – John Callow and Michael Mullett10. Lancashire, Shakepeare and the cosntrucion of cultural neighbourhoods in sixteenth century England – Mary A. Blackstone11. A family tradition: Dramatic patronage by the Earls of Derby – Sally-Beth MacLean12. The playhouse at Prescot and the 1592–4 plague – David George13. Regional performance in Shakepeare's time – Peter GreenfieldIndex

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