Talking Shakespeare: Shakespeare into the Millennium

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Talking Shakespeare....Pages 9-23
How Does Hamlet End?....Pages 24-38
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Stage: Touring Practice in Shakespeare’s Day....Pages 39-54
Studying Shakespeare and his Contemporaries....Pages 55-69
Shakespeare and History....Pages 70-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
‘Home, Sweet Home’: Stratford-upon-Avon and the Making of the Royal Shakespeare Company as a National Institution....Pages 85-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Twelfth Night: ‘One Face, One Voice, One Habit, and Two Persons!’....Pages 105-122
Shakespeare and the Homoerotic....Pages 123-137
Shakespeare and Race: Othello I.iii....Pages 138-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
The Unkindest Cuts: Flashcut Excess in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet....Pages 151-167
Showing Versus Telling: Shakespeare’s Ekphraseis, Visual Absences, and the Cinema....Pages 168-186
Shakespeare and the Future....Pages 187-200
Why We Talk Shakespeare....Pages 201-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-253