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

 

 

Number60                                                                                            October2001

 

C O N T E N T S

 

 

Editors’ Note to Number 60

From the Editors: Policy

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Cahiers élisabéthains on the web

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Guest Contributors

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Abstracts

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ARTICLES

 

John Bale’s Lost Mystery Cycle

Peter HAPPÉ

 

 

1-12

The Merchant of Venice and the Value of Money

Peter D. HOLLAND

 

 

13-30

The Ludic and Cultural Strategies of the Overbury Characters

Don BEECHER

 

 

31-41

‘Bothe Kinge, and People seem’d Conjoyn’d in One’—Fulke Greville and the Question of Political Power

Jean-Christophe MAYER

 

 

 

43-52

‘The Almost Thingles Things’: Thomas Moffat’s The Silkewormes, and English Renaissance Georgic

Katherine CRAIK

 

 

 

53-65

The Poetics of Thomas Hobbes by Himself: An Edition of his Preface to his Translations of Homer

        Luc BOROT

 

Troilus as Ovid’s Orpheus (Note)

       David THATCHER

 

 

 

67-82

 

 

83-6

A Mystery Pageant for the Millenium (Review Article)

        Dennis BROOK

 

87-99

 

 

REVIEWS Plays

 

A Mystery Pageant for the Millennium, based on the Mediaeval Mystery Plays, written and directed by Dennis Brook, performed by the villages of Dethick, Lea and Holloway, two performances 1 and 2 July 2000 (Jean-Marie Maguin)

 

 

 

101-04

Edward II, directed by Michael Grandage, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 28 March 2001 (P.J. Smith)

 

104-06

 

 

RSC Spring/SummerSeason 2001 in London and Stratford

 

 

 

 

Richard III, directed by Michael Boyd for the RSC, Young Vic Theatre, London, 7 April 2001 (P.J. Smith)

 

106-10

King John, directed by Gregory Doran for the RSC, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 25 April 2001 (P.J. Smith)

 

110-12

Twelfth Night, directed by Lindsay Posner for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 11 June 2001(Paul Prescott)

 

 

112-15

Hamlet, directed by Steven Pimlott for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 18 June 2001(P.J. Smith)

 

115--18

Macbeth, directed by Tim Carroll, The Globe, London, 26 June 2001 (P.J. Smith)

 

118-19

 

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La Tragédie d’Othello le Maure de Venise, traduction de Jean-Michel Déprats, mise en scène et scénographie de Dominique Pitoiset, au Théâtre National de Chaillot le 30 janvier 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

Beaucoup de bruit pour rien, d’après Shakespeare, version: S.Bertrand, P.Azam, V.Regattieri, Compagnie Casalibus de Voiron (Isère) au Ranelagh, le 19 juin 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

Needcompany’s King Lear, d’après Shakespeare, traduit en néerlandais par Hugo Claus, adaptation française d’Anny Czupper et Olivier Taymans d’après Jean-Michel Déprats, mise en scène et scénographie de Jan Lauwers, au Théâtre de la Ville le 28 avril 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, ballet de Mauro Bigonzetti, musique d’Elvis Costello, Centre de la danse de Reggio d’Émilie au Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, le 29 mars 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, ballet de John Neumeier, musique de Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy et György Ligeti, au Palais Garnier, le 29 juin 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

Roméo et Juliette, ballet de Rudolf Noureev, musique de Serge Prokofiev, à l’Opéra-Bastille, le 28 juin 2001(Guy Boquet)

 

 

 

120-2

 

 

 

122-3

 

 

 

 

123-4

 

 

 

 

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126-7

 

 

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REVIEWS Books

 

Kristen POOLE Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge 2000) (David Walker).

 

 

129-31

David CRESSY, Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England. Tales of Discord and Dissension, Oxford University Press (Oxford 2000) (Anne Dunan)

 

 

131-3

Margaret Inwood, The Influence of Shakespeare on Richard Wagner. Sudies in History and Interpretation of Music, vol. 64, The Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter 1999) (Ton Hoenselaars)

 

 

 

133-5

 

Stevie SIMKIN, A Preface to Marlowe, Preface Books, Pearson Education (Longman, Harlow 2000) (Frédéric Cadilhac)

 

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BOOKS RECEIVED

(compiled by Angela Maguin)

 

137-43