| 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 |
| Select Bibliography |
| Index |