The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Introduction: Performing the Promise of Shakespeare
1. ‘. . . a thing impossible I should love thee’: Shakespearean Performance as White Property
2. Hamlet as Resisting Subject: Intersecting Artistic Tactics in the Mousetraps of Doran and Godwin
3. Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004)
4. Rita Dove, Blues Aesthetics and Shakespearean Improvisation
5. ‘Ich leb’, was ihr rappt’: Confronting Racism through Consumption in OG Keemo’s Otello
6. Mythical Geographies: Race, Nationalism and Shakespeare’s Pronunciation
7. Shakespeare and Gentrification in Regional Theatre
8. Page and Stage Appropriations of Two Gentlemen of Verona
9. (Un)Veiling Isabella in Measure for Measure
10. ‘I have perused her well’: The Hypersexualisation of Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII and Showtime’s The Tudors
11. Trammelling up the Consequence: Making Shakespeare Fiction
Index