Shakespeare without Boundaries -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Shakespeare without Boundaries -- Dieter Mehl: The Boundary Crosser -- Part I: Early Modern Playwriting and Editing:Boundaries and Thoroughfares -- The Limitations of the First Folio -- Anonymous Was a Woman -- Thomas Heywood, Script-Doctor -- Part II: Beyond the Bounds of Medium: From Page to Stage to World Wide Web -- Performance and the Play-Text -- "He shifteth his speech": Accents and Dialects in Playsby Shakespeare and His Contemporaries -- Shakespeare and Dance: Dissolving Boundaries -- Passing Through: Shakespeare, Theater Companies,and the Internet -- Part III: Crossing Intratextual Boundaries -- Making Mistakes: Shakespeare, Metonymy, and Hamlet -- Dot Dot or Dash: A Strange SOS from Prospero's Island -- The Problematization of Generic Boundaries: LyricalInroads into Shakespeare's Dramatic Dialogue -- Part IV: Crossing Intertextual Boundaries -- William and Geoffrey -- "It will have blood they say -- blood will have blood"-Proverb Usage and the Vague and Undetermined Placesof Macbeth -- The Fall of a Sparrow: Shakespearean Tragedy and the Bible -- Part V: Dissolving National Boundaries -- Foundational Myth in Cymbeline -- Shakespeare and Velázquez -- Crossing the Dotted Line: Shakespeare and Geography -- Part VI: Boundary Crossings: Translation and National Discourses -- "there's the rub": Translating Hamlet's Thought Process -- "Bottom, thou art translated": Translation as a Boundaryand a Bridge -- Hamlet across Boundaries of Language and Genre inJacinto Benavente's Comedy Hamlet's Jester -- Part VII: Boundary Crossings: "Afterlives" -- or, Shakespeare without Boundaries -- Hamlet's Furniture: Shakespeare Sat Here -- Dickens and Shakespeare's Ghost(s) -- Madame Odier Illustrates Shakespeare.

Shakespeare in the Edwardian Nursery: Simple Stories as the Passport to Plays -- Contributors -- Index.