Cover -- Contents -- Part I: Special section, The Achievement of Robert Weimann -- 1 Performance in Shakespeare's Theatre: Ministerial and/or Magisterial? -- 2 Traction Control -- 3 The Spectator, the Text, and Ezekiel -- 4 Text and Performance, Reiterated: A Reproof Valiant or Lie Direct? -- 5 Shakespeare Performance Studies -- 6 Author's Voice? Acting with Authority in Early References to Shakespeare -- 7 The Author's Accomplice, or the Unsearchable Complicities of Players in the Making of Elizabethan Drama -- 8 Disciplining 'Unexpert People': Children's Dramatic Practices and Page/Stage Tensions in Early English Theatre -- 9 Bifold Adam: Shakespeare, Milton, and the Actor's Voice -- 10 "Grose Indecorum", "Contrarietie", Vice-Descendants and the Power of Comic Performance: Weimann and Shakespeare Among the Neoclassicals -- Part II -- 11 Rusting, Bright, and Resting Weapons: A Textual Crux, and Closure in Romeo and Juliet -- 12 Circes in Ephesus: Civic Affiliations in The Comedy of Errors and Early Modern English Identity -- 13 "If imagination amend them": Lucretius, Marlowe, Shakespeare -- 14 Twice-telly-ed Tales -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.