Shakespeare on the Global Stage

Paul Prescott is Reader in English at the University of Warwick, UK.Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

Shakespeare on the Global Stage is a timely and insightful collection… it raises crucial questions that will be central to any future attempt to bring Shakespeare, and the arts more generally, to wider audiences nationwide.

• List of figuresList of contributorsPrefacePaul Prescott and Erin Sullivan1: Shakespeare and the Dream of OlympismPaul Prescott2: Two Poems from the Olympic YearKapka Kassabova3: Performing Shakespeare in the Olympic Year: Interviews with Three PractitionersFrank Cottrell BoyceTom BirdTracy Irish4: States of the Nations: Henry VI, the London Olympics and the Spectacular CityStuart Hampton-Reeves5: Shakespeare in the North: Regionalism, Culture and PowerAdam Hansen and Monika Smialkowska6: Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the ‘Olympic Spirit’Stephen Purcell7: Expert Spectatorship and Intra-Audience Relationships at Globe to Globe 2012 Rose Elfman8: ‘Mind the gap’: Globalism, Postcolonialism and Making up Africa in the Cultural OlympiadColette Gordon9: A Tale of Two Londons: Locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012 Peter Kirwan and Charlotte Mathieson10: 1948/2012: Building NationsTony Howard 11: Olympic Shakespeare and the Idea of Legacy: Culture, Capital and the Global FutureErin SullivanAfterword Kathleen McLuskieIndex