Shakespeare on the Global Stage

Paul Prescott is Reader in English at the University of Warwick, UK.Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

• List of figuresList of contributorsPrefacePaul Prescott and Erin Sullivan1: Shakespeare and the Dream of OlympismPaul Prescott2: Two Poems from the Olympic YearKapka Kassabova3: Performing Shakespeare in the Olympic Year: Interviews with Three PractitionersFrank Cottrell BoyceTom BirdTracy Irish4: States of the Nations: Henry VI, the London Olympics and the Spectacular CityStuart Hampton-Reeves5: Shakespeare in the North: Regionalism, Culture and PowerAdam Hansen and Monika Smialkowska6: Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the ‘Olympic Spirit’Stephen Purcell7: Expert Spectatorship and Intra-Audience Relationships at Globe to Globe 2012 Rose Elfman8: ‘Mind the gap’: Globalism, Postcolonialism and Making up Africa in the Cultural OlympiadColette Gordon9: A Tale of Two Londons: Locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012 Peter Kirwan and Charlotte Mathieson10: 1948/2012: Building NationsTony Howard 11: Olympic Shakespeare and the Idea of Legacy: Culture, Capital and the Global FutureErin SullivanAfterword Kathleen McLuskieIndex

Shakespeare on the Global Stage is a timely and insightful collection… it raises crucial questions that will be central to any future attempt to bring Shakespeare, and the arts more generally, to wider audiences nationwide.