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 58 October 2000


C O N T E N T S

In Memoriam Michel Grivelet v


From the Editors: Policy vii
Cahiers élisabéthains on the web viii
Guest Contributors ix
Abstracts xi


ARTICLES

Social Consciousness: Spaces for Characters in The Spanish Tragedy
Andrew J. HARTLEY 1

Violence, Ritual, and the Execution of Time in Marlowe’s
The Jew of Malta

Eric C. BROWN 15

On this Side Bardolatry: The Canonisation of the Catholic Shakespeare
Michael DAVIES 31

Mesure pour Mesure selon Stéphane Braunschweig
Isabelle SCHWARTZ-GASTINE 49


Charles Jennens’ Shakespeare and his Eighteenth-Century Competitors
Bernice W. KLIMAN 59


REVIEWS Plays

Troilus and Cressida, dir. Dominic Dromgoole for Oxford Stage Co., Mar. 2000 (P.J. Smith) 73

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Malachi Bogdanov for the English Shakespeare Co., Grand Theatre, Leeds, Mar. 2000 (Lisa Hopkins) 75

2000 RSC Summer Season at Stratford-upon-Avon

The Comedy of Errors
, dir. Lynn Parker for the RSC, RST, April 2000 (P.J. Smith) 77

As You Like It, dir. Gregory Doran for the RSC, RST, May 2000 (P.J. Smith) 78

Richard II, dir. Stephen Pimlott for the RSC, The Other Place, May 2000 (P.J. Smith) 80

1 Henry IV, dir. Michael Attenborough for the RSC, Swan, April 2000 (P.J. Smith) 82

2 Henry IV, dir. Michael Attenborough for the RSC, Swan, June 2000 (Greg Walker) 85

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Michael Boyd for the RSC, RST, July 2000 (P.J. Smith) 87

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The Tempest, dir. Lenka Udovicki, The Globe, London, May 2000 (P.J. Smith) 89

Hamlet, dir. Giles Block, The Globe, London, June 2000 (P.J. Smith) 91

The Antipodes, dir. Gerald Freedman, The Globe, London, Aug. 2000 (P.J. Smith) 92

Romeu e Julieta (in Portuguese), conceived and dir. by Gabriela Villela for the Grupo Galpão, The Globe, London, July 2000 (P.J. Smith) 93

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Coriolanus, dir. Jonathan Kent, Almeida Theatre Co., London, June 2000 (P.J. Smith) 95

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All’s Well That Ends Well, dir. Barbara Gaines, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, May 2000 (William T. Liston) 96

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Un Roméo et Juliette, trad. J.M. Déprats, mise en scène: Ricardo L. Muñoz, Fontenay-sous-Bois, Jan. 2000 (Margaret Jones-Davies) 99

Le Marchand de Venise, mise en scène Cécile Garcia-Fogel, trad. J.M. Déprats, Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, Fév. 2000 (Guy Boquet) 100

La Nuit des rois, texte français: Anne Bourgeois, scénographie: Philippe Mathieu et Élise Roche, Troupe du Phénix, Théâtre de l’Épée de bois, Paris, Avril 2000 (Guy Boquet) 102

Le tombeau de Richard G., de Bertnard Chartreux, d’après Richard III, mise en scène: Alain Milianti, Le Volcan à la Maison de la Culture du Havre et à l’Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, Paris, Avril 2000
(Guy Boquet) 104

Falstaff, d’après Shakespeare, mise en scène Claude Brosset, square St Lambert, Paris, juin 2000 (Guy Boquet) 105

Hamlet, opéra d’Ambroise Thomas, direction musicale Michel Plasson, mise en scène Nicolas Joël, orchestre et chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse au Châtelet, Paris, juin 2000 (Guy Boquet) 106


REVIEWS Books

Christopher Highley, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1997) (Dermot Cavanagh) 109

Richard Barber, translator, Bestiary. The Boydell Press (Woodbridge, 1999), pp. 205, ISBN 085115 753 X £19.99 (pb).

Erica Fudge, Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture. Macmillan Press (Basingstoke, 2000)

Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, and Susan Wiseman, editors, At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period. Macmillan Press (Basingstoke, 1999)
(David Salter) 112

Julie Sanders, Kate Chedgzoy and Susan Wiseman (eds.), Refashioning Ben Jonson: Gender, Politics and the Jonsonian Canon, Macmillan/St Martin's Press (Basingstoke and London/New York, 1998)

Martin Butler (ed), Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance, Macmillan / St Martin's Press (Basingstoke and London/New York, 1999) (Rui Carvalho Homem) 115

Alan C. Dessen and Leslie Thomson, A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999) (Ton Hoenselaars) 120

Zdenek Stríbrny, Shakespeare and Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press (Oxford 2000) (Lois Potter) 122


BOOKS RECEIVED
(compiled by Angela Maguin) 125

ERRATA



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