Contents

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION [1963]

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION [1936]

Part I [1936]

     I  THE SHAKESPEARIAN PLAY

    II  THE THEORY OF PRODUCTION

   III  SOME ACTUAL PRODUCTIONS

   IV  THE IDEAL PRODUCTION

with a 1963 addition

    V  SHAKESPEARE AND RITUAL

Part II [1949 and 1963]

  VI  THE BODY HISTRIONIC

 VII  Timon of Athens AND SHYLOCK

VIII  TREE AND CRAIG; POEL AND BARKER

   IX  CONTEMPORARY PRESENTATIONS

with notes on the Filming of Shakespeare (1936; 1963)

    X  AFTERTHOUGHTS

POSTSCRIPT: The Stratford Ontario Festival

APPENDIX A. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

APPENDIX B. John Gabriel Borkman

APPENDIX C. Appreciations

INDEXES