Shakespeare and the cultures of performance

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index

Contents

Shakespeare and the theatrical performance of rusticity / David Bevington -- Payback time : on the economic rhetoric of revenge in the Merchant of Venice / Linda Woodbridge -- To give and to receive: performing exchanges in the Merchant of Venice / Sean Lawrence / To "gase so much at the fine stranger" : Armado and the politics of English in Love's labour's lost / Lynne Magnusson -- "Does not the stone rebuke me" : the Pauline Rebuke and Paulina's Lawful magic in the Winter's tale / Huston Diehl -- Shakespeare and secular performance / Anthony B. Dawson -- Discharging less than the tenth part of one : performance anxiety and in Troilus and Cressida / Gretchen E. Minton -- Forbidden mixtures : Shakespeare in blackface minstrelsy, 1844 / Coppélia Kahn -- The tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the cultures of performance : Prospero, Gielgud, Rylance / Gordon McMullan