This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideolo

The early settlers in America had a special relationship to the theater. Though largely without a theater of their own, they developed an ideology of theater th

Holger Syme presents a radically new explanation for the theatre's importance in Shakespeare's time. He portrays early modern England as a culture of mediation,

Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare