'Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory, a handsome volume of fifteen essays, ably edited by Clara Calvo and Coppélia Kahn, analyses the way in which commemorative practices have shaped our idea of Shakespeare and have helped create a powerful cultural institution or, as Graham Holderness has termed it, a 'myth'. … this important volume presents us with many riches and is itself a fitting, self-reflective commemorative act celebrating, but also interrogating, Shakespeare and what we've made him.' Irena R. Makaryk, Archiv
Introduction: Shakespeare and commemoration Coppélia Kahn and Clara Calvo; 1. David Garrick: saints, temples and jubilees Peter Holland; 2. Commemorating Shakespeare in performance: Betterton and Irving Richard Schoch; 3. Relic, pageant, sunken wrack: Shakespeare in 1816 Adrian Poole; 4. Remembrance of things past: Shakespeare 1851, 1951, 2012 Graham Holderness; 5. Remembering Shakespeare in India: colonial and postcolonial memory Supriya Chaudhuri; 6. Shakespeare at the Vatican, 1964 Marta Cerezo; 7. Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864 Douglas M. Lanier; 8. Shakespeare's rising: Ireland and the 1916 Tercentenary Andrew Murphy; 9. Goblin's market: commemoration, anti-semitism and the invention of 'global Shakespeare' in 1916 Gordon McMullan; 10. Performing commemoration in wartime: Shakespeare galas in London, 1916–19 Ailsa Grant Ferguson; 11. Lest we forget: Shakespeare tercentenary commemoration in Sydney and London, 1916 Philip Mead; 12. Brought up to date: Shakespeare in cartoons Clara Calvo; 13. Sculpted Shakespeare Ton Hoenselaars; 14. Gardening with Shakespeare Nicola J. Watson; 15. Anne Hathaway's Cottage: myth, tourism, diplomacy Katherine West Scheil; Bibliography; Index.