The Conclusion summarises pathways towards a wider theoretical trajectory for studying theatre anthropologically. What can public art institutions, especially theatres, tell us about the ethical relevance of art in German and European society today? How do artists in such institutions reflect on their practice, methods, and theories, and in doing so, what kinds of expertise do they develop? What methods and theoretical frameworks do we require to develop new approaches to professional public theatre today? The conclusion constitutes an outlook on the wider import and significance of this interdisciplinary study for anthropology, theatre, and performance theory.

The introduction explains why the topic of this book is timely, how other scholars have started to investigate the materiality and the modulations of the voice as a process through which national, regional, social and personal identities are constantly (re)constituted. The introduction also explains the need to reconstruct past attitudes to national, regional and class accents in Shakespearean performance in order to gain a historical perspective and a better grasps of the politics that inform the production and reception of marked, or inflected, voices in Shakespeare in contemporary performance.