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 59 April 2001

C O N T E N T S



From the Editors: Policy v
Cahiers élisabéthains on the web vi
Guest Contributors vii
Abstracts ix



ARTICLES

Self as Subject in the Morality Drama
Charlotte SPIVAK 1

The Englishness of The Merry Wives of Windsor
Leo SALINGAR 9

A Woman’s Authority in Lodge’s Rosalynde
Catherine ESKIN 27

Pathologie du corps spectral à la Renaissance
Claude-Gilbert DUBOIS 45

Coriolan ou les trois péchés du guerrier
Jean-Marc CHADELAT 59

The Story of King Lear in John Hardyng’s Chronicle
Carl James GRINDLEY 77


REVIEWS Plays

Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, 2000

As You Like It, directed by Jeannette Lambermont, Avon Theatre, 21 June 2000 80

Hamlet, directed by Joseph Ziegler, Festival Theatre, 22 June 2000 83
Titus Andronicus, directed by Richard Rose, Tom Patterson Theatre, 24 June 2000 (William T. Liston) 85

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The Two Noble Kinsmen, directed by Tim Carroll, The Globe, London, 4 August 2000 (Kathy Taylor) 87

Hamlet, directed by John Caird, Lyttelton Theatre, London, 11 September 2000 (Peter J. Smith) 90
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Richard Baron, Playhouse Theatre, Nottingham, 12 September 2000 (P.J. Smith) 92

Twelfth Night, directed by Bill Alexander, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 13 September 2000 (P.J. Smith) 94

Romeo and Juliet, directed by Tim Supple, Olivier Theatre, London, 5 October 2000 (P.J. Smith) 96

The White Devil, directed by Philip Franks, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 18 October 2000 (P.J. Smith) 98

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The Winter’s Tale, directed by Slobodan Unkovski for the American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 24 May 2000 (Kaara L. Peterson) 101


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RSC Winter Season 2000-01 in London and Stratford

The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Gale Edwards for the RSC, Barbican Theatre, London, 16 November 2000 (P.J. Smith) 104

The Tempest, directed by James MacDonald for the RSC, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, 7 December 2000 (P.J. Smith) 106

Henry VI, directed by Michael Boyd for the RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Part 1: 17 January 2001; Part 2: 17 January 2001; Part 3: 18 January 2001 (P.J. Smith and Greg Walker) 108


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Les Deux nobles cousins, by W. Shakespeare and J. FLetcher, translated by Chantal Vadon, directed by Madeleine Achard, Grenier Théâtre, Toulouse, 26 March 2000 (Jean-Paul Debax) 114

Hamlet, directed by Peter Brook, Les Bouffes du Nord, Paris, 20 December 2000 (Ladan Niayesh) 117

Le Roi Lear, translation; Luc de Goustine, directed by Philippe Adrien, Théâtre de la Tempête, 10 October 2000 (Guy Boquet) 119

Octave, Antoine et Cléopâtre, adaptation: Ariane Walter and Madona Bouglione, directed by Madona Bouglione, Théâtre du Ranelagh, 17 October 2000 (Guy Boquet) 122

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été et Othello, compagnie du Soleil Bleu, directed by Laurent Laffargue, Théâtre Jean Vilar, Suresnes, 10 November 2000 (Guy Boquet) 123

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, by the Théâtre du Feu Follet, directed by Philippe Awat, Théâtre de l’Épée de Bois, 8 December 2000 (Guy Boquet) 126

Cymbeline, de William Shakespeare, directed by Philippe Calvario, Théâtre des Amandiers, Paris, 14 November 2000 (Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine) 127

Hamlet sur la route, adaptation for 4 actors, marionnettes and film of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, directed by Paul Golub, Théâtre du Volcan Bleu, Paris, 11 October 2000 (Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine) 129


REVIEWS
Books

Timothy J. Reiss, Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe. The rise of aesthetic rationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) (John Gascoigne) 133

Franco MORMANDO, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 1999)

Cynthia L POLECRITTI, Preaching Peace in Renaissance Italy: Bernardino of Siena and His Audience. Catholic University of America Press (Washington D.C., 2000)

Adele J HAFT, Jane G WHITE, and Robert J WHITE, The Key to ‘The Name of the Rose’. University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, 1999) (David Salter) 135

Naseeb SHAHEEN, Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays, University of Delaware Press & Associated University Presses (Newark & London, 1999) (Ton Hoenselaars) 138

John N. KING, Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2000) (David Walker) 140

Andrew GURR, editor, The First Quarto of King Henry V, The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2000) (Lukas Erne)141


BOOKS RECEIVED
(compiled by Angela Maguin)

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