Shakespeare and Stratford

Katherine Scheil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre (2003) and most recently, of She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (2012). She has recently published the very first cultural history of Anne Hathaway: Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (2018).

• PrefaceKatherine ScheilChapter 1. Helen Faucit and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1879Christy DesmetChapter 2. Secret Stratford: Shakespeare’s Hometown in Recent Young Adult FictionSusanne GreenhalghChapter 3. Stratfordian Perambulations; or, Walking with ShakespeareJulie SandersChapter 4. Shakespeare’s Church and the Pilgrim Fathers: Commemorating Plymouth Rock in StratfordClara CalvoChapter 5. Importing StratfordKatherine ScheilAfterword: ‘Dear Shakespeare-land’: Investing in StratfordNicola J. Watson