Cahiersélisabéthains

 

LateMedieval and Renaissance English Studies

 

 

 

Number 63

April 2003

 

C O N T E N T S

 

From the Editors: Policy

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Cahiers élisabéthains on the Web

v

Guest Contributors

vii

Abstracts

ix

 

ARTICLES

 

Ex Saksp Libr”: The Bard’s Book and the Forger

Donald Beecher

 

 

1

Æmilia Lanyer and Queen Elizabeth at Cookham

Roger Prior

 

 

17

 

Shakespeare et l’“obscur abîme” de la langue

Michael Edwards

 

 

33

 

Who speaks in the garden?

Malgorzata Grzegorzewska

 

 

47

 

Class and Gender Destabilization in Webster’s The Devil’s Law-Case

Aspasia Velissariou

 

 

71

 

 

REVIEWS Plays

 

RSC Spring/Summer Season 2002 in London and Stratford

 

The Roman Actor, directed by Sean Holmes for the RSC at The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 12 June 2002 (Paul Prescott)

 

89

Pericles, directed by Adrian Noble for the RSC at The Roundhouse, London, 8 July 2002, front circle, and The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 13 August 2002 (Paul Prescott)

 

 

91

The Malcontent, by John Marston, directed by Dominic Cooke for the RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 4 September 2002 (Peter J. Smith and Greg Walker)

 

 

94

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The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh for the RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 5 December 2002 (Greg Walker)

 

 

97

King Lear, directed by Declan Donnellan for the RSC Academy, Young Vic Theatre, London, 30 October 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

101

Eastward Ho!, directed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace for the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon, 15 June 2002; the Gielgud Theatre, London, until March 22, 2003 (Jean-Pierre Villquin with Stewart Ross)

 

 

 

105

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RSC Spring/Summer Season 2003 in London and Stratford

 

As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, directed by Gregory Thompson for the RSC, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 27 March 2003 (Greg Walker)

 

 

108

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Measure for Measure Malaya, directed by Phil Willmott for The Steam Industry Theatre Company, Riverside Studios, London, 6 November 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

 

111

The Tempest, directed by Michael Grandage, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2 October 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

113

The Tempest, directed by Patrick Mason, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 12 November 2002 (Peter J. Smith)

 

116

Othello, directed by Iqbal Khan, Haymarket Studio Theatre, Leicester, 13 November 2002 (Eleanor Lowe)

 

118

 

 

Shakespeare in Paris, Winter Season 2002-03

 

Antony and Cleopatra, French text by D. Mesguich, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre de l’Athénée-Louis Jouvet, Paris, 5 March 2003 (Guillaume Winter)

 

 

120

Beaucoup de bruit pour rien, trad. de Jean-Pierre Richard, mise en scène de Benoît Lavigne, compagnie Les Saltimbanques au Théâtre 13, Paris, le 12 novembre 2002 (Guy Boquet)

 

 

122

Richard III, traduction de Pascal Collin, mise en scène de Guy Delamotte, le PANTA-Théâtre de l’Épée de Bois, Paris, le 6 décembre 2002 (G. Boquet)

 

 

123

La Tragédie d’Hamlet, texte français de Jean-Claude Carrière et Marie-Hélène Estienne, adaptation et mise en scène de Peter Brook, au Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, le 5 janvier 2003 (G. Boquet)

 

 

124

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, de et ou d’après Shakespeare, acclimatation Eric Chantelauze, Vincianne Regattieri et Marjolaine, par la Compagnie Casalibus à l’Espace 89 à Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 19 novembre 2002 (G. Boquet)

 

 

 

125

Le songe d’une nuit d’été, trad. en japonais de Yushi Odashima, mise en scène de Yukio Ninagawa, Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris, le 12 octobre 2002 (G. Boquet)

 

 

126

Falstaff de Verdi, livret d’Arrigo Boito d’après Les Joyeuses Commères de Windsor, dir. musicale de James Conlon, mise en scène de Dominique Pitoiset, Opéra-Bastille, Paris, le 4 février 2003 (G. Boquet)

 

 

 

129

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, translated by Jean-Michel Déprats, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Théâtre National de Nice, 8th March 2003 (Margaret Llasera)

 

 

131

 

 

REVIEWS Books

 

Shakespeare, Œuvres complètes, en bilingue anglais-français : Début et fin de partie

 

Jean-Michel Déprats (dir.), Shakespeare, Tragédies, I et II (Œuvres complètes, vol. 1), avec le concours de Gisèle Venet, Pléiade, Paris : Gallimard, 2002 (Jean-Marie Maguin)

 

 

135

Michel Grivelet (†) et Gilles MONSARRAT (dir.), William Shakespeare, Œuvres complètes, vol. 7, Tragicomédies I, et vol. 8), Tragicomédies II, Poésies, Bouquins, Paris : Robert Laffont, 2002 (Jean-Marie Maguin)

 

 

 

140

Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan (eds.), In Arden: Editing Shakespeare. Essays in Honour of Richard Proudfoot, The Arden Shakespeare, London: Thomson Learning, 2003 (Lukas Erne)

 

 

143

Sir Thomas Overbury (And Others), Characters, together with Poems, News, Edicts, and Paradoxes based on the eleventh edition of A Wife Now the Widow of Sir Thomas Overbury, ed. with Introduction and Notes by Donald Beecher [Barnabe Riche Society Publications 15], Ottawa, Canada: Dovehouse Editions, 2003 (Jean-Marie Maguin)

 

 

 

 

147

François Laroque et Franck Lessay (eds.), Esthétiques de la nouveauté à la Renaissance, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2001 (Guillaume Winter)

 

 

148

Jason Scott-Warren, Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 (Nick Myers)

 

151

Peter Lake and Michael Questier, ed., Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000 (Jean-Christophe Mayer)

 

 

155

 

 

BOOKS RECEIVED (compiled by Janice Valls-Russell)

157

 

 

Publicity (after page 167)

A Call for Papers. The Huguenots in the British Isles and the American Colonies from 1550 to 1790 : religious writings and representations

 

Collection Astræa

 

Collection Astræa Texts