Contents

• Professional players in the Guild Hall, Stratford-upon- Avon, 1568-1597 /J.R. Mulryne
• Reconstructing The Rose: development of the playhouse building between 1587 and 1592 /Jon Greenfield
• The Rose and its stages / Julian M.C. Bowsher
• Philip Henslowe and the Elizabethan court /S.P. Cerasano
• From revels to revelation: Shakespeare and the mask /Janette Dillon
• Bride-ing the shrew: costumes that matter /Barbara Hodgdon
• "When men and women are alone": framing the Taming in India /Ruth Vanita
• Crown and the pillow: royal properties in Henry IV /Stephen Dickey
• Humanity at stake: man and animal in Shakespeare’s theatre /Andreas Höfele
• Popular Shakespeare in Japan /Yukari Yoshihara
• "Philosophy in a gorilla suit": do Shakespearians perform or just perform-a-tive? /Sharon O’Dair
• Sudokothellophobia: writing hypertextually, performatively /Rob Conkie
• Living monuments: the spatial politics of Shakespeare’s Rome on the contemporary stage /Bridget Escolme
• "In Windsor forest and at the Boar’s Head: the "Falstaff plays" and English music in the early twentieth century /Julie Sanders
• Michael Bogdanov in conversation /John Drakakis
• Mouse and the urn: re-visions of Shakespeare from Voltaire to Ducis /Michèle Willems