Shakespeare & Company is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart.

List of figures Forweord - Allyn Burrows Preface Aknowledgements Abbreviations Prologue ACT I: HISTORY AND ROOTS 1. Visions and Revisions: The Company is Formed 2. Bricks and Mortar, Trellis and Trees: An Aesthetic is Realized 3. Talk #1: Function of the Theatre ACT II: TRAINING 4. Evolution and Influences of the Month-Long Intensive 5. Talk #2: Actor/Audience Relationship 6. Voice Work & Basics 7. Text Work & Dropping In 8. Body Work & Bringing It All Together ACT III: EDUCATION 9. Practical Pedagogy 10. Shakespeare in the Schools 11. Shakespeare on the Campus 12. Shakespeare in the Courts ACT IV: PERFORMANCE 13. The Art Form of Performance 14. Talk #3: Theatre, Therapy and Theology 15. Cymbeline: A Performance Case Study Epilogue: 'On such a full sea are we now afloat' Appendix 1: An Abridged Performance History Appendix 2: An Abridged Dramatis Personae Appendix 3: A Potted Plot of Cymbeline Index