Table of Contents:
  • Hamlet and Auerbach / Peter Holland
  • "Scenes from the life of one who is suited for nothing": Shakespeare and the question of mimesis / Roger Starling
  • "'Tis in reversion that I do possess": speculation and destination in Richard II / Vance Adair
  • Platonism and bathos in Shakespeare and other early modern drama / Gabriel Egan
  • "Pluck but his name out of his heart": a Caesarean cross-section / Paul Innes
  • "Bananas on a mango tree": colonial mimesis, hybridity and modern Indian theatre / Poonam Trivedi
  • Court masque and the (re)production of aristocratic identity / Monika Smialkowska
  • The distorting mirror: theatrical mimesis on the early modern transvestite stage / Christian Billing
  • Mimesis, resistance and iconoclasm: resituating The revenger's tragedy / Adrian Streete
  • "There must be something heard": John Donne's aural universe / Jonathan Holmes.