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Discusses Barbara Gaines's success at bringing Shakespeare to Chicago through founding the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Explores the connections between the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Stratford (Ontario) Festival, and other theaters in the Canadian Shakespeare community.
Analyzes how playwright Neil LaBute and director Josie Rourke constructed a new feminist framework for Taming of the Shew by reworking various scenes and completely rewriting the ending in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production (q.v.).
Analyzes Michael Bogdanov's production of Winter's Tale at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (q.v.).
Discusses the risks that the Chicago Shakespeare Theater took in producing Edward Hall's Rose Rage (q.v.) and contends that similar risks existed when 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI were first performed.
Argues for "a restoration of the entire Shakespeare canon," a revival of typically contentious plays such as Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew, and a renewal of interest in neglected plays like King John, Timon of Athens, and Titus Andronicus.
Explores the relationship between Virginia Woolf's performative representation of female character and her appreciation for Shakespeare. Illustrates the connection through Woolf's reference to Shakespeare's Cleopatra, a woman of "infinite variety," in Between the Acts.
Recalls and compares the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's three different productions of Troilus and Cressida--all directed by Barbara Gaines (q.v.).
Argues that Barbara Gaines's Merry Wives Windsor (2004) engages with and incorporates early modern domestic themes through its staging, use of domestic visual icons, and the actors' portrayals of the various characters.
Compares Barbara Gaines's 1997 and 2005 productions of Merchant of Venice, arguing that the events of 9/11 shaped the differences between the two; notes that the 1997 production primarily concerns the anti-Semitic environment of a 1920s New York while the 2005 production deals with "ethnic, political, and religious conflicts" which characterize the concerns of post 9/11 American society.