LateMedieval and Renaissance English Studies
| Number 63 | April 2003 |
C O N T E N T S
| From the Editors: Policy | iv |
| Cahiers élisabéthains on the Web | v |
| Guest Contributors | vii |
| Abstracts | ix |
| “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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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BOOKS RECEIVED (compiled by Janice Valls-Russell) | 157 |
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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 | |