Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Shakespeare and the Protestant Mind
- Divine [ ]sences
- ‘An alien people clutching their Gods’?: Shakespeare’s Ancient Religions
- ‘He drew the Liturgy, and framed the rites’: The Changing Role of Religious Disposition in Shakespeare's Reception
- Jonson, Shakespeare, and the Religion of Players
- The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare’s Protestantism as Politics in Disguise
- ‘Every Good Gift From Above’ Archbishop Trench’s Tercentenary Sermon
- Anthony Munday and The Merchant of Venice
- Perfect Answers: Religious Inquisition, Falstaffian Wit
- When Suicide Becomes an Act of Honour: Julius Caesar and Hamlet in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
- Religion in Arden
- A Wedding and Four Funerals: Conjunction and Commemoration in Hamlet
- Between Religion and Ideology: Some Russian Hamlets of the Twentieth Century
- Of Shadows and Stones: Revering and Translating ‘the Word’ Shakespeare in Mexico
- Ministers, Magistrates and the Production of ‘Order’ in Measure for Measure
- The Hebrew Who Turned Christian: The First Translator of Shakespeare into the Holy Tongue
- Shakespeare and English Performance Style: The European Context
- All At Sea: Water, Syntax, and Character Dissolution in Shakespeare
- King John, König Johann: War and Peace
- The Tempest’s Forgotten Exile
- The Old Lady, or All is Not True
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2000
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1999
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1999
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- Shakespeare and the Protestant Mind
- Divine [ ]sences
- ‘An alien people clutching their Gods’?: Shakespeare’s Ancient Religions
- ‘He drew the Liturgy, and framed the rites’: The Changing Role of Religious Disposition in Shakespeare's Reception
- Jonson, Shakespeare, and the Religion of Players
- The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare’s Protestantism as Politics in Disguise
- ‘Every Good Gift From Above’ Archbishop Trench’s Tercentenary Sermon
- Anthony Munday and The Merchant of Venice
- Perfect Answers: Religious Inquisition, Falstaffian Wit
- When Suicide Becomes an Act of Honour: Julius Caesar and Hamlet in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
- Religion in Arden
- A Wedding and Four Funerals: Conjunction and Commemoration in Hamlet
- Between Religion and Ideology: Some Russian Hamlets of the Twentieth Century
- Of Shadows and Stones: Revering and Translating ‘the Word’ Shakespeare in Mexico
- Ministers, Magistrates and the Production of ‘Order’ in Measure for Measure
- The Hebrew Who Turned Christian: The First Translator of Shakespeare into the Holy Tongue
- Shakespeare and English Performance Style: The European Context
- All At Sea: Water, Syntax, and Character Dissolution in Shakespeare
- King John, König Johann: War and Peace
- The Tempest’s Forgotten Exile
- The Old Lady, or All is Not True
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2000
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1999
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Summary
Most of the productions listed are by professional or semi-professional companies. Productions originating in 1998 or earlier have only been included if there is new information. Details are mainly taken from newspaper reviews held in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library. Many of the companies listed were involved in small-scale tours; where neither reviews nor listings mark these as professional they are starred. I have also included the principal annual Shakespeare festivals where, it is worth noting, the audience, as at the Globe, often seems younger and more culturally diverse than those at conventional theatre productions.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
The ESC, tour continued. See Shakespeare Survey 53. The production toured in the UK and to the Perth Theatre Festival, Australia.
The RSC at the RST, Stratford: June 1999
Director: Steven Pimlott
Designer: Yolanda Sonnabend
Music: Jason Carr
Antony: Alan Howard
Cleopatra: Frances de la Tour
On transfer to the Barbican the controversial opening - Antony's head between Cleopatra's thighs - was omitted.
Shakespeare's Globe, London: July 1999
Master of Play and Verse: Marian Spon
Master of Clothing and Properties: Jenny Tiramani
Master of Music: Claire van Kampen
Antony: Paul Shelley
Cleopatra: Mark Rylance
All male cast. Mark Rylance received excellent notices.
A and BC Theatre Company, tour: August 1999
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- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 283 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001