Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Special Section: Updating Shakespeare -- 1 Introduction: Updating Shakespeare -- 2 Dramaturgy: Beyond the Presentism/Historicism Dichotomy -- 3 Site-Specific Hamlets and Reconfigured Localities: Jiang'an, Singapore, Elsinore -- 4 Family Ties over Romantic Love: Appropriations of Romeo and Juliet in Northeastern Brazil -- 5 Tadashi Suzuki Directs King Lear - Again -- Part II: Poems -- 6 That's Amores! Latin Love and Lovesickness in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis -- 7 Semper Eadem: The Paradox of Constancie in Shakespeare's Phoenix and the Turtle -- Part III: Narrative Designs -- 8 Tragedy in Retrospect: Hamlet's Narrative Infrastructure -- 9 The Rape of Marina -- Part IV: Social Works -- 10 Prenuptial Rituals and Bonding in Shakespeare and Elsewhere -- 11 Tolerance in Shakespeare: An Introduction -- Part V: After Shakespeare -- 12 Idols in Hobbes, Shakespeare, and Gay -- 13 Politics of Theatre vs. Politics of (Non)State: Shakespeare in the Repertoire of Polish Nineteenth-century Theatres -- 14 "Useful and fancy articles": Relics of the Nineteenth-century Stage -- 15 "What wretches feel": Lear, Edgar, and Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.