Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: S.Werner PART I: WORKING WITH THE EPHEMERAL One Piece at a Time; R.Shaughnessy Replaying Early Modern Performances; W.N.West Acts of Seizure: A Theatrical Poetics of Metonymy and Metaphor; C.Cobb PART II: RECONNECTING LITERARY CRITICISM AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Page and Stage Again: Rethinking Renaissance Character Phenomenologically; A.J.Hartley The Spirit of '76: Original Practices and Revolutionary Nostalgia; P.Menzer Spreading the Shakespeare Gospel: A rhetorical history of the academic theater review; J.Lopez PART III: RESITUATING SHAKESPEARE Performance Criticism Without Performance; G.Love Performing Relevance/Relevant Performances: Shakespeare, Jonson, Hitchcock; E.Smith Shakespeare and Our Contemporaries; B.Escolme 'Ay, there's the rub': Race and Performance Studies; A.Thompson Performing the 'Live': Cinema, Simulation, and the Death of the Real in Alex Cox's Revengers' Tragedy ; C.Lehmann Index