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 62                                                                                            October 2002

 

 

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

 

“Dauid in his most hevynes”: Bale’s King Johan and the Politicization of the Penitential David Tradition

Raymond-Jean Frontain

 

 

1

Règlements de comptes dans Shakespeare: le prototype de Richard III

Pierre Sahel

 

11

Lear’s Castle

Lisa Hopkins

 

25

“Enter […] Lorenzo, disguised like an amazon”: Powerdressing in Swetnam the Woman-hater, Arraigned by Women

Margaret Jane Kidnie

 

 

33

Jonson and the Alchemical Economy of Desire: Creation, Defacement and Castration in The Alchemist

Lynn S. Meskill

 

 

47

“To be” in France – The Virtual Impossibility of Knowing

Edna Z. Boris

 

65

 

 

 

REVIEWS Plays

 

Richard III, directed by Michael Grandage, The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 6 April 2002 (Paul Edmondson)

 

 

73

 

 

RSC Spring/Summer Season 2002 in London and Stratford

 

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Richard Jones for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 27 February 2002 (Greg Walker)

 

 

78

 

Edward III, attributed to William Shakespeare, directed by Anthony Clarke for the RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 6 May 2002 (Greg Walker)

 

 

83

 

Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Gregory Doran for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 14 April 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

 

88

 

Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Michael Attenborough for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 15 May 2002 (Greg Walker)

 

 

91

The Tempest, directed by Michael Boyd for the RSC, The Roundhouse, London, 8 May 2002 (Héloïse Sénéchal)

 

95

Eastward Ho!, directed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace for the RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 9 May 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

98

The Island Princess, by John Fletcher, directed by Gregory Doran for the RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 16 July 2002 (Greg Walker)

 

 

101

 

Spring/Summer Season 2002, The Globe Theatre, London

 

Twelfth Night, directed by Tim Carroll, The Globe, London, 22 May 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

104

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Mike Alfreds, The Globe, London, 6 June 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

107

 

 

Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, June 2002

 

All’s Well That Ends Well, directed by Richard Monette, Stratford Festival Theatre, 18 June 2002 (William T. Liston)

 

109

Henry VI: Revenge in France, directed by Leon Rubin, Tom Patterson Theatre, 19 June 2002 (William T. Liston)

 

111

Henry VI: Revolt in England, directed by Leon Rubin, Tom Patterson Theatre, 20 June 2002 (William T. Liston)

 

112

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Othello, directed by Yuri Yeremin for the American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 18 January 2002 (Kaara L. Peterson)

 

 

114

 

 

Titus Andronicus, directed by Xavier Leret for Kaos Theatre Company, Riverside Studios, London, 7 February 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

117

King Lear, directed by Jonathan Kent for The Almeida Theatre Company, King’s Cross, London, 6 March 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

120

Macbeth, by Barrie Rutter for Northern Broadsides, The Castle, Wellingborough, 26 March 2002 (Cécile Marti)

 

122

The Alchemist, directed by Joss Bennathan for Present Moment Theatre Company, Riverside Studios, London, 18 January 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

 

124

 

 

Shakespeare in Paris, Spring/Summer Season 2002

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Yannis Kokkos, Théâtre des Amandiers, Nanterre, June 2002 (Guillaume Winter)

 

127

La Tempête, de et/ou d’après William Shakespeare ; capitaine de vaisseau et mise en vent: Vincianne Regattieri ; Compagnie Casalibus et Compagnie La Maison des Alcools au Théâtre Silvia Monfort, le 23 janvier 2002 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

 

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Le Conte d’hiver, mise en scène de Pierre Pradinas, Compagnie Le Chapeau Rouge au Théâtre La Piscine à Châtenay-Malabry, le 5 février 2002 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

131

Juliette et Roméo, d’après Shakespeare, mise en scène d’Irina Brook, au Théâtre de Chaillot, salle Gémier, le 8 mars 2002 (Guy Boquet)

 

133

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, traduit en lithuanien par Aleksys Churginas, mise en scène d’Oskaras Korsunovas, au Théâtre 71, Malakoff, le 12 février 2002 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

136

Un Volpone, d’après Ben Jonson, mise en scène de Vincent Gœthals, Compagnie Le Bateau feu de Dunkerque au Théâtre de la Commune à Aubervilliers, le 28 mai 2002 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

137

Macbeth, opéra en quatre actes de Verdi, livret de Francisco Maria Piave d’après Shakespeare, direction musicale de James Conlon, mise en scène de Phyllida Lloyd, coproduction avec le Royal Opera House de Covent Garden, Opéra-Bastille, le 16 mars 2002 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

 

138

 

 

Shakespeare at the Avignon Theatre Festival, Summer 2002

 

Macbeth, adapted and directed by Camille and Manolo for Théâtre du Centaure, assisted (translation) by Jean Claude Carrière, Avignon Theatre Festival, Clos de l’Abbaye, July 2002 (Josée Nuyts-Giornal)

 

 

140

 

 

 

REVIEWS Books

 

 

 

Peter Holland (ed.), Shakespeare Survey 54: Shakespeare and Religions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

(Nicholas McDowell)

 

 

143

 

Edward J. Esche (ed.), Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance (Aldershot, Burlington USA, Singapore, and Sydney: Ashgate, 2000) (Ton Hoenselaars)

 

 

146

 

Jean-Luc Nardone et Henri Lamarque (éd.), L’Histoire de Griselda : Une femme exemplaire dans la littérature européenne, (Toulouse : Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2000 et 2001), 2 vol. (Jean-Marie Maguin)

 

 

 

149

 

M. L. Stapleton: Fated Sky: The “Femina Furens” in Shakespeare (Newark and London: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses, 2000). (Kristine Steenbergh)

 

 

152

 

Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2001) (Pierre Kapitaniak)

 

155

 

 

 

 

BOOKS RECEIVED

(compiled by Janice Valls-Russell)

 

159

 

 

 

 

Shakespeare and European Politics: conference announcement

169

 

Call for Papers: Shakespeare and the Low Countries

171