Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I: Shakespeare and the Early Modern North -- 1. Shakespeare's Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline -- 2. 'Here are strangers near at hand': Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union -- 3. Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists -- 4. North by Northwest: Shakespeare's Shifting Frontier -- II: Performing Shakespeare in the North -- 5. The People's Shakespeare: Place, Politics and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre
6. Only Northerners Need Apply? Northern Broadsides and 'No-nonsense' Shakespeare -- 7. Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation? -- 8. William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country -- III: Appropriating Shakespeare in the North -- 9. 'What is Shakespeare to Manchester'? Shakespearean Engagement in the North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 10. A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East Suburb and Shakespeare -- 11. Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005-2014)
12. Shakespeare's Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition -- Postscript: News from the North -- Index
