C A H I E R S   É L I S A B É T H AI N S

 

Late Medieval and RenaissanceEnglish Studies

 

 

Number 61                                                                                                April 2002

 

C O N T E N T S

 

 

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

 

St. Thomas More’s Utopia and the Description of Britain

            Simon Morgan-Russell

 

 

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The Interrogation of the Heavens in King Lear and Marlowe’s Dr Faustus

David Webb

 

 

 

13

Theatricality in Venus and Adonis and its Staging in Germany (1994-1998)

Christa Jansohn

 

 

 

31

Possets, Pills and Poisons: Physicking the Female Body in Early Seventeenth-Century Drama

Katherine Armstrong

 

 

 

43

Using Entrances to Affect Audience Response in Middleton’s A Cheap Maid in Cheapside

Robert Irish

 

 

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REVIEWS Plays

 

Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, June 2001: “The Making of a King”

 

 

 

Henry IV, Part 1, directed by Scott Wentworth, Tom Patterson Theatre, 19 June 2001 (William T. Liston)

 

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Falstaff (Henry IV, Part 2), directed by Scott Wentworth, Tom Patterson Theatre, 19 June 2001 (William T. Liston)

77

Henry V, directed by Jeannette Lambermont, Avon Theatre, 20 June 2001 (William T. Liston)

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Richard II, directed by Robert Woodruff for the American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17 May 2001, centre right. (Kaara L. Peterson)

 

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RSC Spring/Summer Season 2001 in London and Stratford

 

 

 

Julius Caesar, directed by Edward Hall for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 6 August 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

 

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The Winter’s Tale, directed by Nicholas Hytner, Olivier Theatre, London, 24 July 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

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Hamlet, adapted and directed by Peter Brook, Young Vic Theatre, London, 24 August 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

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Titus Andronicus, directed by Phil Willmott for The Steam Industry, Battersea Arts Centre, London, 22 July, 2001 (Paul Edmondson)

 

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King Lear, directed by Barry Kyle, The Globe, London, 4 July 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

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Cymbeline, directed by Mike Alfreds, The Globe, London, 26 July 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

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Cymbeline, directed by Bartlett Sher, for Theatre for a New Audience, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, 27 November 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

101

Macbeth, directed by Hilary Spiers for MJE Productions, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 3 October 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

103

The Merchant of Venice, directed by Loveday Ingram for the RSC, The Pit Theatre, London, 8 November 2001 (Peter J. Smith)

 

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Le Marchand de Venise, texte français de Jean-Michel Déprats, mise en scène d’Andrei Serban, à la Comédie-Française, salle Richelieu, le 1er octobre 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

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La Comédie des méprises, libre adaptation et mise en scène de Marielle et Jean-François Granadel, Compagnie des Ailes Blanches au Théâtre de Verdure du Jardin Shakespeare du Pré Catelan au Bois de Boulogne, le 23 septembre 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

 

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Mesure pour mesure, texte français de Jean-Michel Déprats, mise en scène de Jacques Nichet, Théâtre National de Toulouse-Pyrénées aux Gémeaux, Sceaux, le 15 novembre 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

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Sonnets, chantés par Nora Krief, adaptation et conception de Pascal Collin, au Théâtre 71, Malakoff, le 19 octobre 2001 (Guy Boquet)

 

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REVIEWS Books

 

 

 

Barbara Fuchs, Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 (Ladan Niayesh)

 

 

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Peter Holland, editor, Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production, Volume 53, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 (Lloyd Davis)

 

 

115

Kenneth Gross, Shakespeare’s Noise, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001 (Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin)

 

117

Louis Arsac, editor, Analyses et réflexions sur Shakespeare: “Henry V”, Paris: Ellipses, 2000 (Ton Hoenselaars)

 

121

Ulrich Erckenbrecht, editor, Shakespeare sechsundsechzig: Variationen über ein Sonnett. Erweiterte Ausgabe. Kassel: Muriverlag, 2001 (Ton Hoenselaars)

 

 

124

 

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BOOKS RECEIVED

(compiled by Janice Valls-Russell)

 

127

 

An Index to Cahiers élisabéthains Numbers 51-60

137

A Subject Index to Cahiers élisabéthains Numbers 51-60

(compiled by members of the CERRA)

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