Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Shakespeare, Theory and Contexts -- 1. Talking Shakespeare -- 2. How does Hamlet end? -- 3. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Stage: Touring Practice in Shakespeare's Day -- 4. Studying Shakespeare and his Contemporaries -- 5. Shakespeare and History -- II Shakespeare and National Identity -- 6. "Home, Sweet Home": Stratford-upon-Avon and the Making of the Royal Shakespeare Company as a National Institution -- III Shakespeare, Performance, Sexuality and Race -- 7. Twelfth Night: "One face, one voice, one habit and two persons!" -- 8. Shakespeare and the Homoerotic -- 9. Shakespeare and Race: Othello I.iii -- IV Shakespeare, Film and the Future -- 10. The Unkindest Cuts: Flashcut Excess in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet -- 11. Showing Versus Telling: Shakespeare's Ekphraseis, Visual Absences, and the Cinema -- 12. Shakespeare and the Future -- 13. Why We Talk Shakespeare -- Appendix: Bibliography of Shakespeare and Electronic Sources -- Notes and References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.