This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest , mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution.

ERICA SHEEN is a lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, UK. She teaches and researches in Shakespeare and the Renaissance, American cinema (especially Hollywood in the Cold War), European film (especially Italian), and Literature/Film.

Contents Acknowledgements The Institution of Theatre Nebuchadnezzar's Tree A Pleasure and a Profit Welcome to your Chamber Calling Fools into a Circle The Only Men A Stranger to My Heart 'Tis Time Index