Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Shakespeare the Historian
- The Decline of the Chronicle and Shakespeare's History Plays
- Rites of Oblivion in Shakespearian History Plays
- Richard II's Yorkist Editors
- Mapping the Globe: The Cartographic Gaze and Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1
- Falstaff's Belly: Pathos, Prosthetics and Performance
- ‘And is Old Double Dead?’: Nation and Nostalgia in Henry IV Part 2
- Performing the Conflated Text of Henry IV: The Fortunes of Part Two
- Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V
- Georgic Sovereignty in Henry V
- The Troublesome Reign, Richard II, and the Date of King John: A Study in Intertextuality
- The Trials of Queen Katherine in Henry VIII
- ‘Watch Out for Two-handed Swords’: Double-Edged Poetics in Howard Barker's Henry V in Two Parts (1971)
- Daunted at a Woman's Sight?: The Use and Abuse of Female Presence in Performances of the Histories as Cycles
- The RSC's ‘Glorious Moment’ and the Making of Shakespearian History
- Shakespeare as War Memorial: Remembrance and commemoration in the Great War
- Shakespearian Biography, Biblical Allusion and Early Modern Practices of Reading Scripture
- Filling in the ‘Wife-Shaped Void’: The Contemporary Afterlife of Anne Hathaway
- Shakespeare and Machiavelli: A Caveat
- Shame and Reflection in Montaigne and Shakespeare
- Playing the Law for Lawyers: Witnessing, Evidence and the Law of Contract in The Comedy of Errors
- Shakespeare's Narcissus: Omnipresent Love in Venus and Adonis
- Surface Tensions: Ceremony and Shame in Much Ado About Nothing
- ‘Remember Me’: Shylock on the Postwar German Stage
- ‘Dangerous and Rebel Prince’: A Television Adaptation of Hamlet in Late Francoist Spain
- What Shakespeare Did with the Queen's Men's King Leir and When
- Re-cognizing Leontes
- Shakespeare Performances in England 2009
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2008
- The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare in Performance
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Index to Volume 63
Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2008
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2010
- Frontmatter
- Shakespeare the Historian
- The Decline of the Chronicle and Shakespeare's History Plays
- Rites of Oblivion in Shakespearian History Plays
- Richard II's Yorkist Editors
- Mapping the Globe: The Cartographic Gaze and Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1
- Falstaff's Belly: Pathos, Prosthetics and Performance
- ‘And is Old Double Dead?’: Nation and Nostalgia in Henry IV Part 2
- Performing the Conflated Text of Henry IV: The Fortunes of Part Two
- Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V
- Georgic Sovereignty in Henry V
- The Troublesome Reign, Richard II, and the Date of King John: A Study in Intertextuality
- The Trials of Queen Katherine in Henry VIII
- ‘Watch Out for Two-handed Swords’: Double-Edged Poetics in Howard Barker's Henry V in Two Parts (1971)
- Daunted at a Woman's Sight?: The Use and Abuse of Female Presence in Performances of the Histories as Cycles
- The RSC's ‘Glorious Moment’ and the Making of Shakespearian History
- Shakespeare as War Memorial: Remembrance and commemoration in the Great War
- Shakespearian Biography, Biblical Allusion and Early Modern Practices of Reading Scripture
- Filling in the ‘Wife-Shaped Void’: The Contemporary Afterlife of Anne Hathaway
- Shakespeare and Machiavelli: A Caveat
- Shame and Reflection in Montaigne and Shakespeare
- Playing the Law for Lawyers: Witnessing, Evidence and the Law of Contract in The Comedy of Errors
- Shakespeare's Narcissus: Omnipresent Love in Venus and Adonis
- Surface Tensions: Ceremony and Shame in Much Ado About Nothing
- ‘Remember Me’: Shylock on the Postwar German Stage
- ‘Dangerous and Rebel Prince’: A Television Adaptation of Hamlet in Late Francoist Spain
- What Shakespeare Did with the Queen's Men's King Leir and When
- Re-cognizing Leontes
- Shakespeare Performances in England 2009
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2008
- The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare in Performance
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Index to Volume 63
Summary
Most of the productions listed are by professional companies, but some amateur productions are included. The information is taken from Touchstone (www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk), a Shakespeare resource maintained by the Shakespeare Institute Library. Touchstone includes a monthly list of current and forthcoming UK Shakespeare productions from listings information. The websites provided for theatre companies were accurate at the time of going to press.
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Theatre Set-up. UK tour June–August.
www.ts-u.co.uk
Director: Wendy McFee
AS YOU LIKE IT
C Company. Bridewell Theatre, London, 22 January–8 February.
www.stbridefoundation.org/bridewelltheatre
Director: Aileen Gonsalves
Part of the Lunchbox Theatre series – 45-minute adaptations for lunchtime.
Watford Palace Theatre. Watford Palace, Watford, 4–26 April.
www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk
Director: Brigid Lamour
Guildford Shakespeare Company. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 17–26 July.
www.guildford-shakespeare-company.co.uk
Director: Sean Aita
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. Robinson College Gardens, 18 August–6 September.
www.cambridgeshakespeare.com
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Forum Theatre Company. Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton, London, 12 February–2 March.
www.thecourtyard.org.uk
Hall Green Little Theatre, 25 February–1 March.
www.hglt.org.uk
All-female version
Guildford Shakespeare Company. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 19 June–5 July.
www.guildford-shakespeare-company.co.uk
Director: Joanna Read
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. Robinson College Gardens, 28 July–16 August.
www.cambridgeshakespeare.com
Warhorse Theatreworks. Cockpit Theatre, London, 3–27 September.
www.warhorsetheatreworks.com
Adaptation
The Comedy of Errors – An Identity Affair
Full Tilt Theatre Company. University Theatre, Bath Spa University, Bath, 20–24 May and tour.
www.fulltilt-theatre.com
Adaptor: Gunduz Kalic
Beach holiday resort setting with audience members assigned new identities.
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- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 376 - 387Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010