About the Book:Introduction: Wearing the Codpiece The King’s Many Bodies: Fiona Shaw’s Richard II (1995-96) Playing With Contradictions: Kathryn Hunter’s King Lear (1997) Gender in Exile: Vanessa Redgrave’s Prospero in The Tempest (2000) Staging and Subverting Nostalgia: Dawn French’s Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2001) Vice-Versa: All-Female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre (2003-04)