Reinventing the Renaissance

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Hamlet : Looking Before and After: Why So Many Prequels and Sequels?

Chapter 3 Educating for Pleasure: The Textual Relations of She’s the Man

Chapter 4 ‘Brush up your Shakespeare’: Genre-Shift from Shakespeare to the Screen

Chapter 6 Circulating through ‘languages and tales’: Stephen Greenblatt’s Cardenio

Chapter 7 Peter Ackroyd’s Shakespeare the Biography and Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World , or Facts and Fiction about William Shakespeare

Chapter 8 The Weird Sisters (from The Life and Death of the Brothers Macbeth )

Chapter 9 ‘You kiss like in a movie’: A Contemporary Translation/Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

Chapter 10 At the Threshold — Remembrance and Topicality in Recent Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany

Chapter 11 Kabuki Shakespeare: The NINAGAWA Twelfth Night

Chapter 12 ‘Downright unsaxogrammatical’? — Do Postcolonial Adaptations Contest, or Reinforce Shakespeare’s Canonical Status?

Chapter 13 ‘My dream was lengthened after life’: Ghosts in Michael Boyd’s History Cycle

Chapter 14 ‘Four legs and two voices’: An Interview with Édouard Lekston

Chapter 15 Shakespearean Visual Semiotics and the Silver Screen

Chapter 16 ‘Here’s that shall make you dance’: Movement and Meaning in Bern:Ballett’s Julia und Romeo

Chapter 17 The Duchess of Malfi on Film: Peter Huby’s Quietus

Chapter 18 The Act of Murder: Renaissance Tragedy and the Detective Novel

Chapter 19 Fishing at the Swan: Swan Theatre Plays and the Shaping of an Interpretive Community