Region, religion and patronage : Lancastrian Shakespeare / edited by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson.

General note: Papers originally presented at the "Lancastrian Shakespeare" conference and exhibition at Hoghton Tower and the University of Lancaster, July 1999. Formatted contents note: Introduction / Alison Findlay, Richard Dutton -- "Useless dearness of the diamond": patronage theatre and households / Suzanne Westfall -- Management of mirth : Shakespeare via Bourdieu / Richard Wilson -- Between idolatry and astrology : modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet / Philippa Berry -- Country house, Catholicity and the crypt(ic) in Twelfth night / Anne Lecercle -- Recusancy, festivity and community : the Simpsons at Gowlthwaite Hall / Phebe Jensen -- Suicide at the Elephant and Castle, or did the lady vanish? : alternative endings for early modern women writers / Marion Wynne-Davies -- Shakespeare and Lancaster / Richard Dutton -- Shireburnes of Stonyhurst : memory and survival in a Lancashire Catholic recusant family / John Callow, Michael Mullett -- Lancashire, Shakespeare and the construction of cultural neighbourhoods in sixteenth-century England / Mary A. Blackstone -- Family tradition : dramatic patronage by the Earls of Derby / Sally-Beth MacLean -- Playhouse at Prescot and the 1592-94 plague / David George -- Regional performance in Shakespeare’s time / Peter Greenfield. 505 0_ |a Introduction / Alison Findlay, Richard Dutton -- Useless dearness of the diamond : patronage theatre and households / Suzanne Westfall -- Management of mirth : Shakespeare via Bourdieu / Richard Wilson -- Between idolatry and astrology : modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet / Philippa Berry -- Country house, Catholicity and the crypt(ic) in Twelfth night / Anne Lecercle -- Recusancy, festivity and community : the Simpsons at Gowlthwaite Hall / Phebe Jensen -- Suicide at the Elephant and Castle, or did the lady vanish? alternative endings for early modern women writers / Marion Wynne-Davies -- Shakespeare and Lancaster / Richard Dutton -- Shireburnes of Stonyhurst : memory and survival in a Lancashire Catholic recusant family / John Callow, Michael Mullett -- Lancashire, Shakespeare and the construction of cultural neighbourhoods in sixteenth-century England / Mary A. Blackstone -- Family tradition : dramatic patronage by the Earls of Derby / Sally-Beth MacLean -- Playhouse at Prescot and the 1592-94 plague / David George -- Regional performance in Shakespeare’s time / Peter Greenfield.