C A H I E R S
Late Medieval and RenaissanceEnglish Studies
C O N T E N T S
| From the Editors: Policy | v |
| Cahiers élisabéthains on the Web | vi |
| Guest Contributors | vii |
| Abstracts | ix |
| Raymond-Jean Frontain | 1 |
| Règlements de comptes dans Shakespeare: le prototype de Richard III Pierre Sahel | 11 |
| Lisa Hopkins | 25 |
| 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 |
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| RSC Spring/Summer Season 2002 in London and Stratford | |
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| A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Richard Jones for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 27 February 2002 (Greg Walker) | 78 |
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| 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 |
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| Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Gregory Doran for the RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 14 April 2002 (Peter J. Smith) | 88 |
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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) | 130 | |||
| 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 | |||
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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 | |||
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| REVIEWS Books | |
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| Peter Holland (ed.), Shakespeare Survey 54: Shakespeare and Religions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) (Nicholas McDowell) | 143 |
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| Edward J. Esche (ed.), Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance (Aldershot, Burlington USA, Singapore, and Sydney: Ashgate, 2000) (Ton Hoenselaars) | 146 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2001) (Pierre Kapitaniak) | 155 |
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| BOOKS RECEIVED (compiled by Janice Valls-Russell) | 159 |
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| Shakespeare and European Politics: conference announcement | 169 |
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| Call for Papers: Shakespeare and the Low Countries | 171 |
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