Staging Shakespearian Dissent

Editorial: Why Governments Fear Theatre More Than They Realise/PART ONE: STAGING SHAKESPEAREAN DISSENT/Rising Star/When the Show Doesn’t Go On/The Bard Meets Bollywood/Lifting the Curtain on Zimbabwe/Lend Me Your Ears/Plays Protests and the Censor’s Pencil/The Play’s The Thing/Morals Made To Measure/Stripsearch/The Writer of Our Discontent/Star-Crossed Actors/When the Dream Upset the Regime/Say No Moor/Global View/PART TWO: IN FOCUS/Theatre Of War/Beyond Belief/Exposing History’s Faultlines/Rainbow Warriors/Hack Job/“They Worried I’m Dangerous. I’m Absolutely Harmless”/Tools and Tricks for Truth Seekers/Your Television Is Watching You/Tackling Trumbo/PART THREE: CULTURE/Know Your Enemy/Borderless Bard/Singing for Tahrir/Notes of Discord/Index around the World/Endnote