Book contents
- Frontmatter
- The Shakespearian Stages, Forty Years On
- The Original Staging of The First Part of the Contention (1594)
- Charles Calvert’s Henry V
- Hamlet, An Apology for Actors, and The Sign of the Globe
- ‘Hid indeed within the centre’: The Hall/Finney Hamlet
- Malvolio and the Dark House
- The Text of Cressida and Every Ticklish Reader: Troilus and Cressida, The Greek Camp Scene
- Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4 Scene 16: ‘A Heavy Sight’
- The Tempest’s Tempest at Blackfriars
- Keats and Lucrece
- The Resources of Characterization in Othello
- Ovid and the Mature Tragedies: Metamorphosis in Othello and King Lear
- The Passing of King Lear
- Shakespeare Performances in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1986–7
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 1986
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index to Volume 41
- General Index to Volumes 31-40
Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 1986
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- The Shakespearian Stages, Forty Years On
- The Original Staging of The First Part of the Contention (1594)
- Charles Calvert’s Henry V
- Hamlet, An Apology for Actors, and The Sign of the Globe
- ‘Hid indeed within the centre’: The Hall/Finney Hamlet
- Malvolio and the Dark House
- The Text of Cressida and Every Ticklish Reader: Troilus and Cressida, The Greek Camp Scene
- Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4 Scene 16: ‘A Heavy Sight’
- The Tempest’s Tempest at Blackfriars
- Keats and Lucrece
- The Resources of Characterization in Othello
- Ovid and the Mature Tragedies: Metamorphosis in Othello and King Lear
- The Passing of King Lear
- Shakespeare Performances in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1986–7
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 1986
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index to Volume 41
- General Index to Volumes 31-40
Summary
The list includes some amateur productions and adaptations. Information is taken from programmes, supplemented by reviews, held in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library. Details have been verified wherever possible, but the nature of the material prevents corroboration in every case.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Theatre Clwyd, Mold; Theatre Royal, Haymarket: 26 May 1986-
Directors: Toby Robertson and Christopher Selbie
Designer: Simon Higlett
Cleopatra: Vanessa Redgrave
Antony: Timothy Dalton
See Shakespeare Survey 40 (1988), pp. 181-3.
Played in repertory with The Taming of the Shrew.
AS YOU LIKE IT
Royal Exchange Company, Manchester: 9
Jan.-15 Feb.; and tour 7 April-17 May 1986
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Designer: Di Seymour
Rosalind: Janet McTeer
See Shakespeare Survey 40 (1988), p. 174.
RSC at The Barbican, London, in rep: 12 Dec. 1985-
Director: Adrian Noble
Designer: Bob Crowley
Rosalind: Juliet Stevenson
See Shakespeare Survey 39 (1987), pp. 199-203, for a review of this production's Stratford run.
TAG Theatre Company, Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, at the Edinburgh Festival; and tour: 18 Aug.-10 Oct. 1986
Director: Ian Brown
Designer: Stewart Laing
An adaptation for seven actors, incorporating music and dance.
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- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 183 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989