Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Adam Hansen; I: Shakespeare and the Early Modern North; 1. Shakespeare’s Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline, Paul Frazer; 2. ‘Here are strangers near at hand’: Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union, Steve Veerapen; 3. Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists, Richard Stacey; 4. North by North-West: Shakespeare’s Shifting Frontier, Lisa Hopkins; II: Performing Shakespeare in the North; 5. The People’s Shakespeare: Place, Politics, and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre, Adam Hansen; 6. Only Northerners need apply? Northern Broadsides and ‘no-nonsense’ Shakespeare, Caroline Heaton; 7. Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation?, Janice Wardle; 8. William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country, Richard Wilson; III: Appropriating Shakespeare in the North; 9. ‘What is Shakespeare to Manchester’?: Shakespearean Engagement in The North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Monika Smialkowska; 10. A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East suburb, and Shakespeare, Chris Jackson; 11. Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005-2014), Liz Oakley-Brown; 12. Shakespeare’s Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition, James Loxley; 13. Postscript: News from the North, Willy Maley; Index.