Shakespeare's Staging
Contemporary Productions 1945-1998 (Modern Performances: 1837-1998)
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 Othello, 2000, Royal Shakespeare Company. Othello, Ray Fearson; Desdemona, Zoe Waites. Photographer, Donald Cooper Courtesy of Designing Shakespeare Collection of AHDS Performing Arts. See Gallery 6 for more images of British Shakespeare after WWII.

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Addenbrooke, David. The Royal Shakespeare Company: The Peter Hall Years. London: William Kimber, 1974.
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Babula, William. Shakespeare in Production, 1935-1978: A Selective Catalogue. New York: Garland,1981.

Berry, Ralph. Changing Styles in Shakespeare. London: Alien and Unwin, 1981.

Berry, Ralph, ed. On Directing Shakespeare: Interviews with Contemporary Directors. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989.

Berry, Ralph. Shakespeare in Performance: Castings and Metamorphoses. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Bogdanov, Michael, and Michael Pennington. The English Shakespeare Company: The Story of "The Wars of the Roses"  1986-1989. London: Nick Hern, 1990.

Bowmer, Angus L. As I remember, Adam: An Autobiography of a Festival, Ashland: Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association, 1975.

Brockbank, Philip, ed. Players of Shakespeare: Essays in Shakespeare Performance by Twelve Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press (1985). Reprinted in 1988 as the first of a series, Players of Shakespeare II and III, both subtitled: Further Essays in Shakespeare Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company, ed. R. Jackson and R. Smallwood(1988;1993).

Brockbank, Philip, "Shakespeare Renaissance in China," Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988) 39.195-203.

 Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. London: McGibbon and Kee, 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

Brook, Peter. The Shifting Point: Theatre, Film, Opera, 1946-1987 New York: TheatreCommunications, 1994

Brook, Peter , A Theatrical Casebook. Williams, David, ed., London: Methuen, 1987.

Brown, Ivor, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1948-1950, London: Coward-MacGann, 1950.

Brown, Ivor, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1951-1953, London: Coward-MacGann, 1953

Brown, Ivor, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1954-1956, London;Coward-MacGann, 1956.

Brown, Ivor, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1957-1959, London:Coward-MacGann, 1959.

Brown, Ivor, Shakespeare and the Actors, London: Bodley Head, 1971.

Brown, Ivor and Anthony Quayle, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1948- 1950: a Photographic Record, London, Reinhardt and Evans, 1951.

Brown, John Russell. Free Shakespeare. London; Heinemann, 1974.

Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare's Plays in Performance. London: Edward Arnold, 1966. Revised New York: Applause Books, 1993.

Bulman, James C., ed. Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance. London: Routledge, 1996.
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Chambers, Colin, Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company: Creativity and the Institution, London: Routledge, 2004.

Conkie, Rob, The Globe Theatre Project: Shakespeare and Authenticity, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2006

Cooper, Roberta Krensky. The American Shakespeare Theatre: Stratford, 1955-1985. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library/Associated Univ. Presses,1986.

Coursen, Herbert. Reading Shakespeare on Stage. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1995.

Coursen, Herbert. Shakespearean Performance as Interpretation. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1992.

Croall Jonathan, Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000, London: Methuen, 2000: New York: Continuum, 2001.

Crowl, Samuel. Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen. Athens: Ohio Univ, Press, 1992.
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David, Richard, Shakespeare in the Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1978.

Davies, Robertson. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd; a record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1955.

Day, Barry .This Wooden 'O', Shakespeare's Globe Reborn, the Official Story, with a Foreword by Sir John Gielgud . London: Oberon Books, 1996.

Dobson, Michael, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Dollimore, Jonathan, and Alan Sinfield eds. Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1985. Revised, 1994.
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Engle, Ron, Felicia Hardison Londre, and Daniel J. Watermeier  eds. Shakespeare Companies and Festivals: An International Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Evans, Gareth Lloyd, "Shakespeare and the Actors: Notes Toeards Interpretations [Olivier, Gielgud, Scofield, Richardson]," Shakespeare Survey 21 (1968), 115-25  top

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Fantasia. Louis, Instant Shakespeare: A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors and Teachers, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

Fayard, Nicole, The Performance of Shakespeare in France Since the Second World War, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2006.

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Gay, Penny. As She likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women. London:Routledge, 1994.

Gielgud, John, with John Miller. Acting Shakespeare. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991; New York: Scribner's, 1992.

Gielgud, John, with John Miller and John Powell, An Actor and His Time: A Memoir, Clarkson N. Potter, 1980

Gielgud, John, ed. Harwood Ronald, The Ages of Geilgud: An Actor at Eighty. New York:Limelight, 1984.

Gielgud, John, with John Miller, Shakespeare: Hit or Miss?, London: sidwick and Jackson, 1991.

Gielgud, John. Stage Directions . London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979. 

Goodland, Katharine, and O'Connor, John, A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance 1970-1990: Volume 2, USA and Canada, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Greenwald, Michael L. Directions by Indirections: John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press: 1985.

Gurr, Andrew and John Orrelll. Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe. New York: Routledge, 1989.

 

Griffin, Alice, TheaterPro.com : A Magazine of the Theater Arts.See review section entitled Bard on the Boards : Shakespeare Currently in London, New York and Film. See also its Archive of Reviewed Plays for earlier reviews.

Guthrie, Tyrone; Davies, Robertson; Macdonald, Grant,  Renown at Stratford; a record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada, Toronto: Clarke. Irwin, 1953.

Guthrie, Tyrone; Davies, Robertson; Macdonald, Grant. Twice have the trumpets sounded; a record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1954.
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Halio, Jay, Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1988.

Hall, Peter. Diaries: the Story of a Dramatic Battle. New York: Harper and Rowe,1984.

Harwood, Ronald, ed. The Ages of Gielgud: An Actor at Eighty, New York: Limelight Editions, 1984.

Hayman, Ronald, John Geilgud, New York: Random House, 1981.

He, Qi-xin, "China's Shakespeare," Shakespeare Quarterly 37(1986) 149-59.

Heijes, Coen, "'Strike up the Drum,' the Use of Music in the Boyd History Cycle," Shakespeare Bulletin 27.2 (Summer, 2009) 223-48.

Hildy, Franklin J., ed. New Issues in the reconstruction of Shakespeare's Theatre. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.

Hildy, Franklin J. Shakespeare at the Maddermarket: Nugent Monk and the Norwich Players. Ann Arbor, Mien.; U.M.I. Research Press, 1986.

Holdemess, Graham, ed. The Shakespeare Myth. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1988.

Holland, Peter. English Shakespeares. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.

Hunt, Albert, and Geoffrey Reeves. Peter Brook. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.Press: 1995.

 

 

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Kennedy, Dennis. Looking at Shakespeare: a Visual History of Twentieth-century Performance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Kennedy, Dennis, & Yong Li Lan, Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

 

Kidnie, M. J., Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation, New York and Milton Park, U.K.: Routledge, 2008.

Kiernan, Pauline, Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe, London: Macmillan, 1999.

Kiernander, Adrian. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil. (See Chapter 8, The School of Shakespeare, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

King, Christine, and Brenda Coven. Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival: an Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988.

Kott, Jan, Shakespeare Our Contemporary, trans. Boleslaw Taborski, Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday,1964.
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Learning, Barbara. Orson Welles. New York: Viking, 1985.

Leiter, Samuel L., ed. Shakespeare Around the Globe: A Guide to Notable Postwar Revivals. New York: Greenwood, 1986.

Li Ruru, Shashibiya: Staging Shakespeare in China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003.

 

Londré, Felicia H. "Confronting Shakespeare's 'Political Incorrectness' in Production: Contemporary American Audiences and the New 'Problem Plays'" in Marc Maufort, ed. Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in AmericanTheatre and Drama. New York: Peter Lang, 1995: 85-95.
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Maher, Mary Z., Modern Hamlets, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 1992.

Marowitz, Charles. Recycling Shakespeare. New York: Applause, 1991.

Marowitz , Charles. The Marowitz Shakespeare :Adaptions and Collages of Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, and The Merchant of Venice. New York : Drama Book Specialists, 1978.

McKellan, Sir Ian, [Biography] at http://www.mckellen.com/stage/index7.htm

Miller, Jonathan. Subsequent Performances. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

Price, Joseph G., ed. The Triple Bond: Plays, Mainly Sbakespearean, in Performance. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1975.

 

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O'Connor, Garry, Ralph Richardson; An Actor's Life, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.

O'Connor, John, and Katharine Goodland, A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance, Volume 1, 1970-2005: Great Britain, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

O'Connor, John, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, 1970 to the 21st Century, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Pearson, Richard. "A band of arrogant and united heroes": The Story of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production of "The Wars of the Roses". London: Adelphi Press, 1990.

 

Phillips, Stephen J. "Telling the Story: Shakespeare's Histories in Performance: [An Interview with] Andrew Jarvis." New Theatre Quarterly 6 (1990): 207-14.

Players of Shakespeare: Essays in Shakespearean performance.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Players of Shakespeare 2: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Players of Shakespeare 3: Further Essays in Shakespearian Performance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Potter, Lois, "A Stage Where Every Man Must Play a Part?" (Review of the 1998 Globe season in London), Shakespeare Quarterly, 50, Spring 1999, 74-81.

Potter, Lois, “Roman Actors and Egyptian Transvestites” (review of the 1999 Globe season), Shakespeare Quarterly 50 (2000), 508-17

Potter, Lois, "The 2001 Globe Season: Celts and Greenery," Shakespeare Quarterly 53 (Spring 2002), 95-105.

Prosser, William LLewellyn. American Directorial Approaches to
Shakespeare, 1960-1976
. Ann Arbor: Xerox Univ. Microfilms, 1977.
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Raby, Peter. The Stratford Scene, 1958-1968. (The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada). Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin, 1968.

Redgrave, Michaerl, In My Mind's Eye: An Actor,s Autobiography, New York: Viking Press, 1983.

Richman, David. Laughter, Pain, and Wonder: Shakespeare's Comedies and the Audience in the Theatre. Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 1990.

Richmond, Hugh M., Producer. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Restored. Video Documentary. Venice, Cal.: TMW Media, 1997.

 

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company 1960-1963. London: Max Reinhardt, 1964.

Rutter, Carol, et al., Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare's Women Today. London: Women's Press, 1988. Repr. New York: Routledge, 1989

Shakespeare: an Illustrated Stage History. ed. by Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Rylance, Mark: Play: A Recollection in Pictures and Words of the First Five Years of Play at Shakespeares's Globe Theatre . Photogr.: Sheila Burnett, Donald Cooper, Richard Kolina, John Tramper. London: Shakespeare's Globe Publ.,  2003

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Schafer, Elizabeth, Directing Shakespeare: Women Directing Shakespeare, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

 

 

Shakespeare Around the Globe: a Guide to Notable Postwar Revivals.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Speaight, Robert, Shakespeare on the Stage: an Illustrated History of Shakespearian Performance, Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Stanley, Audrey, "The 1994 Shanghai Internatonal Shakespeare Festival," Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996) 72-80.

The Stratford Festival, 1953-1957: a record in pictures and text of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1958.
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Talkin' Broadway.com, 1997 - 2010 a project of www.TalkinBroadway.Org, Inc. (search for play title to get recent reviews) .

Tanitch, Robert, Gielgud, London: Harrap, 1988.

Taylor, Nancy, Women Direct Shakespeare in America : Productions from the 1990s, Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005.

Thompson, Ayanna, Colorblind Shakespeare, New York and Milton Park, U.K.: Routledge, 2006.

Trewin, J. C., Peter Brook: A Biography, London: Macdonald, 1965.

Trivedi, Poonam, and Ryuta Minami, eds., Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia, New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Warren, Roger. Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

 

Webster, Margaret, Shakespeare Today, London: Dent, 1957.

Wells, Stanley. Royal Shakespeare: Four Major Productions at Stratford- upon-Avon. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1976.
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Yachin, Paul, and Patricia Badir, eds., Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. 

Yutkevitch, Sergei, Othello, (with Sergei Bondarchuk as Othello; 1955/108m) distributed by The Picture Palace, PO Box 281, Caldwell, NJ 07006.
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Zhang, Xiao Yang, Shakespeare in China: A Comparative Study of Two Traditions and Cultures, Newark: University of Delaware Press,  1996.

Zeffirelli, Franco, The Autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli, New York: Weidefeld and Nicholson, 1986.

Zesmer, David M.,  Guide to Shakespeare, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976.

 

Much Ado: CST, 2003. Beatrice (Julie Eccles) mocks Benedick (Charles Shaw Robinson).Most Shakespearean comedies were performed in contemporary Elizabethan costume, so our modern dress has an equivalent effect.Courtesy Jay Yamada

     

 


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