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Folger Shakespeare Library, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 9, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, The Duchess of Malfi. To Jun. 15, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 16, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Return to the Forbidden Planet. To Dec. 1, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Love's Labour's Lost. To Jun. 15, 2013.

O Brave New World

Two Centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian Stage

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction -- 'To dote thus on such luggage': Appropriating Shakespeare in Australia John Golder and Richard Madelaine
Chapter 1 High Culture and Low Culture: The Changing Role of Shakespeare, 1833--2000 Richard Waterhouse
Chapter 2 Shakespeare in Australia: The Early Years, c.1830--50 Elizabeth Webby
Chapter 3 'Sir, I am a Tragedian': The Male Superstars of the Melbourne Stage, 1850--70 Harold Love
Chapter 4 From Leading Lady to Female Star: Women and Shakespeare, 1855-88 Janette Gordon-Clark
Chapter 5 'This Isle is Full of Noises': American Players of Shakespeare in Australia, 1879--89 Douglas McDermott
Chapter 6 Substantial Pageant: Oscar Asche, Latter-day Pictorialism and Australian Audiences, 1909--24 Richard Madelaine
Chapter 7 A Cultural Missionary on Tour: Allan Wilkie's Shakespearean Company, 1920--30 John Golder
Chapter 8 Shakespeare in Adelaide: Professionals and Progressive Amateurs Alan Brissenden
Chapter 9 Dinkum Shakespeare? Perth, Empire and the Bard Bill Dunstone
Chapter 10 International Glamour or Home-grown Entertainment, 1948--64 Penny Gay
Chapter 11 Experiments
I Rex Cramphorn and Measure for Measure, 1973--88 Mark Minchinton
II The DSI Elizabethan Experiments, 1986--93 John Senczuk
Chapter 12 Shakespeare in Queensland: a Cultural-economic Approach Richard Fotheringham
Chapter 13 John Bell and a Post-colonial Shakespeare, 1963--2000 Adrian Kiernander
Australian Shakespeare premieres, and other curiosities: a chronology John Golder
Notes
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Index