List of Illustrations Introduction: Who is a Shakespearean Actor? - Sally Barnden (Swansea University, UK), Emer McHugh (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Part I: Constructing the Figure of the Shakespearean Actor 1. A Local Habitation and Unnamed?: (Partially) Recovering the Local, Plural 'Shakespearean Actor' - Kim Gilchrist (Cardiff University, UK) 2. Black Shakespeareans in Colonial Zimbabwe - Eli Cumings (Columbia University, USA) 3. The Deaf Shakespearean Actor - Jill Bradbury (University of Maryland, USA) 4. 'Imperfect Speakers': Speechless Shakespeare in Punchdrunk's Sleep No More - Ilana Gilovich (Independent Scholar) Part II: Intergenerational Solidarity 5. The Shakespearean Actor as Cultural Ambassador: Edric Connor in Pericles (1958) - Jim Taylor, ( Independent Scholar) 6. 'Mr Macready in little': Charlotte Cushman, William Charles Macready, and Shakespearean Mentorship - Alexandra E. LaGrand (Texas A&M University, USA) 7.

Speaking Shakespeare: Naseeruddin Shah and the Case for Indian Shakespeares - Niyanta Sangal (University of Maryland, USA) Part III: 'Shakespearean' Bodies 8. The Shakespearean Actress and the Last Fuckable Day - Valerie M. Fazel (Arizona State University, USA) and Louise Geddes (Adelphi University, USA) 9. The Actor's Imagination: Hindi Cinema, Shakespeare, and Intimacy in Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider - Anita Raychawdhuri (University of Houston-Downtown, USA) 10.Camp Stylization, Queer Politics and the Shakespearean Actor - Adele Lee (Emerson College, USA) 11. Disability and the Great Tragedian: Kemble, Kean and Richard III - Essaka Joshua (University of Notre Dame, USA) Part IV: Alternative Narratives 12. Novelty Acts: A Scattered History of the First Cross-Dressed Hamlets - Madeleine Saidenberg (University of Oxford, UK) 13. The Disabled Shakespearean Actor Nadia Albina: A Case Study - Kelsey Ridge (Alvernia University, USA) 14.

'Tell me what scares you': On Brave Space and Black and White Masculinities in Keith Hamilton Cobb's American Moor - Jamie Paris (University of Manitoba, Canada) Index.