Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1. Introduction
2. "The useless dearness of the diamond": patronage theatre and households – Suzanne Westfall
3. The management of mirth: Shakepeare via Bourdieu – Richard Wilson
4. Between astrology and adolatry: modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet – Phillipa Berry
5. Country house, Catholicity and the cryptic in Twelfth Night – Anne Lecercle
6. Recusancy, festivity and community: The Simpsons at Gowlthwaite Hall – Phebe Jensen
7. Suicide at the elephant and castle or, did the lady vanish? Alternative endings for early modern women writers –
Marion Wynne Davies
8. Shakespeare and Lancaster – Richard Dutton
9. The Shireburnes of Stonyhurst: memory and survival in a Lancashire Catholic recusant family – John Callow and Michael Mullett
10. Lancashire, Shakepeare and the cosntrucion of cultural neighbourhoods in sixteenth century England – Mary A. Blackstone
11. A family tradition: Dramatic patronage by the Earls of Derby – Sally-Beth MacLean
12. The playhouse at Prescot and the 1592–4 plague – David George
13. Regional performance in Shakepeare's time – Peter Greenfield
Index

About the Author

Alison Gail Findlay is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lancaster Richard Dutton is Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster Richard Wilson is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at the University of Lancaster