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How might Katherine's final speech be staged in the twenty-first century? How might it have been staged in the sixteenth? Must this speech be played for irony, or should we understand her words as sincere? This Handbook foregrounds performance and history as interpretative issues, introducing students to a process of creative imaginative thought. It offers skills and materials with which to explore the variety of ways in which Shakespeare's "troubling comedy" or "light tragedy" might take on meaning today.

A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.

The Humorous Magistrate' is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. This, the earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including 'The Emperor's Favourite', published by the Malone Society in 2010) in a volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The second version, showing yet another stage of revision not found in the Arbury manuscript and orientated towards performance, was purchased by the University of Calgary from the English antiquarian Edgar Osborne in 1972. The...