Dominique Goy-Blanquet is professor of Elizabethan Theatre at the University of Picardie, a member of the editorial board of La Quinzaine Littéraire and a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement. Her works include Shakespeare’s Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage (2003), Shakespeare et l’invention de l’histoire (2004), Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons: Studies in myth and politics (2003) and the French translation of and W. H. Auden’s Lectures on Shakespeare (2003).

A compendium of fascinating production detail and a compellingly argued history of a crucial period of European theatre in which Chereau played a leading role … Goy-Blanquet’s critical exegesis is detailed and illuminating.

• Series PrefaceIntroduction1. Formative years2. First Elizabethan encounters3. Through space and time4. Hamlet5. Contemporary writing at Théâtre des Amandiers6. Teaching and educating7. In the cinema 8. Farewell to Shakespeare9. Chéreau’s contribution to French Shakespeare and beyondChronological bibliographyNotes Index