VOLUME 24 2012

The JOURNAL of the SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Editorial

CHRIS THURMAN iii

Report

NATASHA DISTILLER Future Directions for South African Shakespeare Studies: Changing the Emphasis, Growing the Field 1

Articles

BRIAN WILLAN Whose Shakespeare? Early Black South African Engagement with Shakespeare 3

ISIDORE DIALA (De)Stabilising the European Classic: Sycorax, Esiaba Irobi’s The Tempest 25

ANDREW FOLEY Heaven or Havoc? The End of Hamlet 45

Essays and reviews

COLETTE GORDON Doing Shakespeare, Doing Violence: Shakespeare’s R&J 57

LISA CAGNACCI A South African Aesthetic at Shakespeare’s Globe: Venus and Adonis (U-Venas no Adonisi) 64

DONALD POWERS Not to Puzzle but to Provoke: King Lear – This Time it Hurts 67

ISABEL BRADLEY A Magical South African Masque: Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen” 69

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NICHOLAS COLLINS Of Emblems, Funerals, Adaptation, Song, Antisemitism and Scenology ... ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (ed. Brett Hirsch and Christopher Wortham) 71

LAURENCE WRIGHT Will and Wille Shakespeare on Love: The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism (Ronald Gray) 75

BRIAN PEARCE Last / Late Shakespeare? The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays (ed. Catherine M.S. Alexander) 78

VICTOR HOULISTON The Mystery of Acting Shakespeare on Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles (ed. Julian Curry) 80

GEOFFREY HARESNAPE Shakespeare through the Looking-glass: Anonymous 82

Announcement 85

Notes on Contributors 87

Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa: Membership 89

Information for Writers, Acknowledgements, Databases 90

Cover image

The Comedy of Errors (dir. Matthew Wild), Maynardville Open-Air Theatre, January 2012 Photo: Bronwyn Lloyd. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.