Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. I Shakespeare and the Early Modern North
7. 1 Shakespeare’s Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline 39
8. 2 ‘Here are strangers near at hand’: Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union 60
9. 3 Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists 79
10. 4 North by Northwest: Shakespeare’s Shifting Frontier 103
11. II Performing Shakespeare in the North
12. 5 The People’s Shakespeare: Place, Politics and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre 123
13. 6 Only Northerners Need Apply? Northern Broadsides and No-nonsense Shakespeare 151
14. 7 Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation? 168
15. 8 William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country 187
16. III Appropriating Shakespeare in the North
17. 9 ‘What is Shakespeare to Manchester’? Shakespearean Engagement in the North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 217
18. 10 A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East Suburb and Shakespeare 244
19. 11 Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005–2014) 258
20. 12 Shakespeare’s Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition 276
21. Postscript: News from the North 298
22. Index 315