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 57 April 2000

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

Queen Kateryn Parr’s Lamentacion of a Synner and the Formularies
Frank HOWSON 1

The Physiology of Penance in 1590s Weeping Texts
Ceri SULLIVAN 31

Law and Laws in The Merchant of Venice
Danièle FRISON 49

Ages of Man, Ages of Woman
Hanna SCOLNICOV 61

Canute or Neptune? The Dominion of the Seas and Two Versions of The Tempest
Paul FRANSSEN 79


THE THEATRE

‘Such Sweet Thunder’: Aspects of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 Summer Season
(Review Article)
Vivian THOMAS 95


REVIEWS
Plays

Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, 1999

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
, dir. Richard Monette, Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, June 1999 (William T. Liston) 105

The Tempest, dir. Richard Monette, Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, June 1999 (William T. Liston) 107

Macbeth, dir. Diana Leblanc, Tom Patterson Theatre, June 1999 (William T. Liston) 108

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1999 RSC Summer Season at Stratford-upon-Avon

Antony and Cleopatra, dir. Steven Pimlott for the RSC, RST, July 1999 (P.J. Smith) 111

Timon of Athens, dir. Gregory Doran for the RSC, RST, September 1999 (Greg Walker) 113

Macbeth, dir. Gregory Doran for the RSC, Swan, November 1999 (P.J. Smith) 116

King Lear, dir. Yukio Ninagawa for the RSC, RST, December 1999 (P.J. Smith) 118

The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Lindsay Posner for the RSC, Swan, December 1999 (P.J. Smith) 120

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The Merchant of Venice
, dir. Trevor Nunn for the National Theatre (Cottesloe) London, August 1999 (P.J. Smith) 121

Antony and Cleopatra, dir. Giles Block, The Globe, London, July 1999 (P.J. Smith) 124

The Jew of Malta, dir. Michael Grandage for the Almeida Theatre Company, Almeida Theatre, London, October 1999 (P.J. Smith) 126

Antony and Cleopatra, dir. Barbara Gaines, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, November 1999 (P.J. Smith) 128

Hamlet: First Cut, dir. Jonathan Holloway for Red Shift, The Bull, Barnet, London, December 1999 (P.J. Smith) 130

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Henry V, dir. Jean-Louis Benoit for Théâtre de l’Aquarium, Papal Court, Avignon Theatre Festival, Avignon, July 1999 (Janice Valls-Russell) 132

Roméo et Juliette, texte français et mise en scène de Stuart Seide, Théâtre du Nord au Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, novembre 1999 (Guy Boquet) 135


REVIEWS Books

T. H. Howard-Hill and Philip Robinson, eds., Renaissance Papers 1998, Published for the Southeastern Renaissance Conference by Camden House (Rochester, NY, 1998) (Andrew Hadfield) 137

Arthur F. MAROTTI, editor, Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts. Macmillan Press (Basingstoke, 1999) (David Salter) 140

Joyce Green MacDONALD, editor, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Renaissance, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison/Teaneck, 1997) (Ton Hoenselaars) 143


BOOKS RECEIVED
(compiled by Angela Maguin) 147


Publicity Société Française Shakespeare
Shakespeare et la voix, Actes du Congrès SFS, 1999

Publicity Astræa No. 10:
Richard III. Nouvelles Perspectives Critiques



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