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
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