Table of Contents

1. 'A local habitation and a name': the origins of Shakespeare's Oberon Laura Aydelotte; 2. 'Wrinkled deep in time': Emily and Arcite in A Midsummer Night's Dream Helen Barr; 3. 'Enter Cælia, the Fairy Queen, in her Night Attire': Shakespeare and the fairies Michael Hattaway; 4. Thinking with fairies: A Midsummer Night's Dream and the problem of belief Jesse Lander; 5. 'India' and the Golden Age in A Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Buchanan; 6. The limits of translation in A Midsummer Night's Dream Michael Saenger; 7. Voice, face, and fascination: the art of physiognomy in A Midsummer Night's Dream Sibylle Baumbach; 8. A Midsummer Night's Dream in illustrated editions, 1838–1918 Stuart Sillars; 9. Balanchine and Titania: love and the elision of history in A Midsummer Night's Dream Laura Levine; 10. A Midsummer Night's Dream on radio: the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's radio series Michael P. Jensen; 11. Benjamin Britten's dreams Russ McDonald; 12. Staging A Midsummer Night's Dream: Peter Hall's productions, 1959–2010 Roger Warren; 13. A Midsummer Night's Dream at the millennium: performance and adaptation Carol Thomas Neely; 14. Shakesqueer, the movie: Were the World Mine and A Midsummer Night's Dream Matt Kozusko; 15. Letter from the chalk face: directing A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Staunton Blackfriars Jacquelyn Bessell; 16. A Dream of campus Andrew James Hartley; 17. The plurality of Shakespeare's Sonnets Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells; 18. The properties of whiteness: Renaissance Cleopatras from Jodelle to Shakespeare Pascale Aebischer; 19. 'This is the strangers' case': the utopic dissonance of Shakespeare's contribution to Sir Thomas More Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; 20. A collaboration: Shakespeare and Hand C in Sir Thomas More John Jowett; 21. Three's company: alternative histories of London's theatres in the 1590s Holger Schott Syme; 22. Thomas Greene: Stratford-upon-Avon's town clerk and Shakespeare's lodger Robert Bearman; 23. Shakespeare and the Inquisition Brian Cummings; 24. The Cowell manuscript or the first Baconian: MS294 at the University of London K. E. Attar; 25. The spectre of female suffrage in Shakespeare's Revelations by Shakespeare's Spirit Todd Borlik; 26. Shakespeare, word-coining, and the OED Charlotte Brewer; 27. Shakespeare's new words Robert N. Watson; 28. Hamlet in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt's Shakespeare Andreas Höfele; 29. Behind the red curtain of Verona Beach: Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Toby Malone; 30. The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan: the first twenty-five years Margaret Shewring; 31. Prospero behind bars Curt L. Tofteland and Hal Cobb; 32. Shakespeare performances in England (and Wales) 2011 Carol Chillington Rutter; 33. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2010 James Shaw; 34. This year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: a. Critical studies reviewed by Charlotte Scott; b. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Russell Jackson; c. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen.

Promotional Information

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 65 is 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

About the Author

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies and Department Chair, Department of Film, Television and Theater at the University of Notre Dame.