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 56 October 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
Shakespeare’s fellows: names and collocations
by David Roberts 1
Bruegel and King Lear
by Jean-Louis CLARET and Pierre SAHEL 13
Bottom’s Tangled Web: Texts and Textiles in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by Anne WITTE 25
Fired or Just Too Tired? Grounds for Dismissal in Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 144
by David R. SHORE 41
Ladies’ Trials: Women and the Law in Three Plays of John Ford
by Lisa HOPKINS 49
Review Articles
Between the Lines: Exploring the Interstices of the RSC’s 1998/9 Autumn/Winter Season
by Vivian THOMAS 65
REVIEWS Plays
1999 RSC Spring/Summer Season at Stratford-upon-Avon
Troilus and Cressida, dir. Michael Boyd, RSC, Swan, January 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
81
The Winter’s Tale, dir. Gregory Doran, RSC, Main House, February 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
83
Othello, dir. Michael Attenborough, RSC, Main House, April 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
85
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Michael Boyd for the RSC, Main House, April 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
88
Volpone, dir. Lindsay Posner for the RSC, Swan, April 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
90
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Twelfth Night, dir. Michael Grandage at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, November, 1998 (Lisa Hopkins)
93
Macbeth, presented and produced by Thelma Holt and Karl Sydow, Theatre Royal Bath, February, 1999(private) (Jill Pearce)
94
Twelfth Night, dir. Barrie Rutter for Northern Broadsides, The Playhouse, Derby, March 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
95
The White Devil, by John Webster dir. Paul Kerryson at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, April 1999 (Greg Walker)
97
The Tempest, conceived and directed by Nick Philippou for Actors’ Touring Company, The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, April 1999, studio (Peter J. Smith)
99
Hamlet, dir. Laurence Boswell, Young Vic Theatre, London, April 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
100
The Winter’s Tale (in Russian), dir. Declan Donnellan for the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg, Royal Theatre, Brighton, May 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
103
The Comedy of Errors, dir. Kathryn Hunter, The Globe, London, June 1999 (Peter J. Smith)
106
Julius Caesar, dir. Mark Rylance, The Globe, London, June 1999, (Peter J. Smith)
107
Twelfth Night, dir. Edward Hall, Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Friday, May 1999 (Jill Pearce)
109
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Vie et Mort du Roi Jean, traduction de Jean-Michel Déprats, mise en scène et costumes de Laurent Pelly, à la Maison des Arts et de la Culture André Malraux (Créteil), janvier 1999 (Guy Boquet)
111
Le Juif de Malte, texte français de Henri-Alexis Baatsch, mise en scène de Bernard Sobel, au Théâtre de Gennevilliers, mars 1999 (Guy Boquet)
112
York (Henri VI 3e volet—Richard III), mise en scène et adaptation de Serge Lipszyc, au Théâtre Déjazet, mars 1999 (Guy Boquet)
113
REVIEWS Books
Bryan Crockett, The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, 1995)
119
Huston Diehl, Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestant and Popular Theater in Early Modern England, Cornell University Press (Ithaca & London, 1997) (Michael Davies)
119
John Gillies and Virginia Mason Vaughan, editors, Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison & Teaneck, 1998), (Ton Hoenselaars)
123
Thomas L. Berger, William C. Bradford, and Sidney L. Sondergard, An Index of Characters in Early Modern Drama: Printed Plays, 1500-1660, revised edition Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge, 1998) (Ton Hoenselaars)
124
Kees van Strien, Touring the Low Countries: Accounts of British Travellers, 1660-1720, Amsterdam University Press (Amsterdam, 1998) (Ton Hoenselaars)
126
BOOKS RECEIVED
(compiled by Angela Maguin)
129
Publicity Astræa
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