CONTENTS

Introduction
Tina Krontiris and Jyotsna Singh

Professional and Amateur Audiences: a Comparative Overview

Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Amateurism, Domesticity, and the Anglophone Audience for Shakespeare, 1607-2007
Michael Dobson

The Renaissance Audience-within-an-Audience

Interpretive Multiplicity: Audiences and Mediators on the Shakespearean Stage
Sandra Logan

The Audience of the Jacobean Masque, with a Reference to The Tempest
Effie Botonaki

Censorship Surveillance, and the Formation of Audiences

The Perfect Production: Les Kurbas’s Analysis of the Early Soviet Audience
Irena R. Makaryk

Within and Beyond: Pavel Kohout’s Play Makbeth and its Audiences
Hana Worthen

“Be patient till the last”: The Censor’s Lesson on Shakespeare
Anna Cetera

Audience Response and Ideological Negotiations

Different Othello(s) and Contentious Spectators: Changing Responses in India
Nandi Bhatia

Shakespeare and the Audiences of the Greek Traveling Actors
Mara Yanni

“’Twas Me Who Combed Her Hair”: Audience Participation in Two Italian Rewritings of Othello
Mariangela Tempera

Parting “totally sucks”: Filming Romeo and Juliet for Generation X
Xenia Georgopoulou

Book Reviews

Makaryk, Irena R. Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 2004 (pp 257). ISBN 080208849X
Reviewed by Monica Matei-Chesnoiu

Symington, Rodney. The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare. Lewiston/ Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005 (pp 332). ISBN 0773460144
Reviewed by Lawrence Guntner

Makaryk, Irena R., and Joseph G. Price, eds. Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2006 (pp 440). ISBN 0802090583
Reviewed by Alexander Shurbanov

Krontiris, Tina [KñïíôÞñç, Tßíá]. Ï Óáßîðçñ óå êáéñü ðïëݵïõ, 1940- 1950 [Shakespeare in Wartime, 1940-1950]. Athens: Alexandria, 2007 (pp 221). ISBN 978-960-221-368-1
Reviewed by Mara Yanni

Chaudhuri, Sukanta and Lim, Chee Seng, eds. Shakespeare without English: The Reception of Shakespeare in Non-Anglophone Countries. Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2006 (pp 220). ISBN 81-7758-142-2
Reviewed by Amrita Sen

Knowles, Ric. Reading the Material Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (pp 246). ISBN 05216441 6×
Reviewed by Jyotsna G. Singh

Contributors