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The Appropriation of Shakespeare : Post-Renaissance reconstructions of the works and the myth / edited by Jean I. Marsden.

Contents: Introduction, Jean I. Marsden; accents yet unknown - canonization and the claiming of "Julius Caesar", Michael Dobson; the restoration of "King Lear", Nancy Klein Maguire; rewritten women - Shakespearean heroines in the Restoration, Jean I. Marsden; Shakespeare in quotation marks, Margreta de Grazia; Kemble, Scott and the mantle of the Bard, Nicola Watson; caught in the act - or, the prosing of Juliet, John Glavin; disintegration and its reverberations, Hugh Grady; Bardolotry then and now, Howard Felperin; the transvestite's progress - Rosalind the Yeshiva boy, Marjorie Garber; Buzz Goodbody - directing for change, Dympna Callaghan; Shakespearean features, Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey; "Cymbeline"'s other endings, Ann Thompson.