C A H I E R S É L I S A B É T H A I N S
Late Medieval and Renaissance English Studies
Number 55 April 1999
C O N T E N T S
From the Editors: Policy iv
Cahiers élisabéthains on the web v
Guest Contributors vi
Abstracts viii
ARTICLES
‘These are not the things men live by nowadays’:
Sir John Harington’s Visit to the O’Neill, in 1599
by David M. GARDINER 1
Use of Rhetoric: Antony and Cleopatra
by Leo G. SALINGAR 17
Religious Politics in Ben Jonson’s ‘The Irish Masque’
by Thomas C.K. RIST 27
NOTES
Identifying ‘Glareanus Vadianus’ as John Sanford
by Brandon S. CENTERWALL 35
REVIEW ARTICLES
Elizabethan Studies in Italy from 1994-1996. Part 2
by Michele MARRAPODI 39
The York Cycle, performed in its entirety on 20 June1998, at Toronto
by Betsy TAYLOR 55
THE THEATRE
Interview given by Stevie Simkin, Director of
Marlowe’s Jew of Malta, to Carolyn D. Williams 65
REVIEWS Plays
The Jew of Malta, dir. Stevie Simkin, King Alfred’s Performing Arts Co., Stripe
Theatre, Winchester (Dec. 97) (Carolyn D. Williams) 75
*
Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, June 1998
Julius Cæsar, dir. Douglas Campbell (William Liston) 78
Much Ado About Nothing, dir. Richard Monette (William Liston) 79
The Winter’s Tale, dir. Brian Bedford (William Liston) 81
*
Hamlet (in Japanese), dir. Yukio Ninagawa, the Ninagawa Co., Barbican
Theatre, London (Sept. 98) (Peter J. Smith) 82
Hamlet, dir. Bill Alexander, Birmingham Rep (Oct. 1998) (Peter J. Smith) 85
Henry V, dir. Edward Hall, Watermill Theatre Co., The Other Place (Oct. 98)
(Greg Walker) 89
*
1998 RSC Autumn/Winter Season at Stratford-upon-Avon
Richard III, dir. Elijah Moshinsky, RSC, Main House (Oct. 98) (Greg Walker) 92
*
Shakespeare’s Villains: A Masterclass in Evil, written, directed and performed by
Steven Berkoff, Nottingham Playhouse (Nov. 98) (Peter J. Smith) 95
Antony and Cleopatra, dir. Sean Mathias, Royal National Theatre (Olivier) (Nov. 98)
(Jill Pearce) 97
*
Gallathea, by John Lyly, dir. Francis Guinle, Théâtre Lumière, Théâtre des Ateliers,
Lyon (Mar. 98) (Jacques Ramel) 98
La nuit des rois, mise en scène Hélène Vincent, Théâtre National de Marseille,
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (Nov. 98) (Guy Boquet) 100
Peine d’amour perdue, mise en scène Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Théâtre des
Millefontaines, Théâtre de la Commune, Aubervilliers (Sept. 98) (Guy Boquet) 102
Roméo et Juliette, ballet, musique Serge Prokofiev, Compagnie nationale de danse
d’Espagne, St Quentin-les-Yvelines (Oct. 98) (Guy Boquet) 104
REVIEWS Books
Mary C. Fuller, Voyages in Print: English Travel to America, 1576-1624, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1996) (Ton Hoenselaars) 107
Paul Merchant, editor, Thomas Heywood, Three Marriage Plays: “The Wise-Woman
of Hogsdon”, “The English Traveller, “The Captives”, The Revels Plays,
Manchester University Press (Manchester, 1996) (Ton Hoenselaars) 109
Doreen DelVecchio & Anthony Hammond, editors, William Shakespeare,
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge University
Press (Cambridge, 1998) (Douglas Brooks) 110
John F. Cox, editor, Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare in Production,
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1997) (Jill Orofino) 114
Curtis Perry, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of
Elizabethan Literary Practice, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1997)
(Jill Orofino) 117
Michele Marrapodi, A.J. Hoenselaars, Marcello Cappuzo, L. Falzon Santucci, editors, Shakespeare’s Italy: Functions of Italian Locations in Renaissance Drama, Manchester University Press (Manchester & New York, 1997); Michele Marrapodi, editor, A.J. Hoenselaars, associate editor, The Italian World of
English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality, University of
Delaware Press, Associated University Presses (Delaware & London, 1998)
(Éliane Cuvelier) 120
Jeffrey Masten, Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in
Renaissance Drama, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1997) (Mark Dooley) 125
Tasmin Spargo, The Writing of John Bunyan, Ashgate (Aldershot, 1997)
Michael Davies) 128
Michel Grivelet et Gilles Monsarrat, William Shakespeare, Œuvres Complètes,
édition bilingue. Histoires I et II, Robert Laffont, Collection Bouquins (Paris, 1997)
(Jean-Christophe Mayer) 131
Jean-Michel Déprats, traducteur, William Shakespeare, La Tragédie du roi
Richard II, édition bilingue, Gallimard, Collection Folio/Théâtre (Paris, 1998)
(Jean-Christophe Mayer) 137
Roger-François Gauthier, directeur de publication, François Laroque, conseiller
scientifique, ‘Hamlet’,’La Nuit des rois’: Shakespeare, la scène et ses miroirs.
Théâtre aujourd’hui, no. 6, CNDP (Paris, 1998) (Anny Crunelle-Vanrigh) 139
BOOKS RECEIVED
(listed by Angela Maguin) 145
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