Two Noble Kinsmen (III.v), 1986, Royal Shakespeare Company.

Director, Barry Kyle; Designer, Bob Crowley; Photographer, Donald Cooper (ahds.ac.uk/performingarts).

The Morris Dancers shown here stress the importance of dance in the Elizabethan theatre. This fertility dance marked the symbolic core of a play concerned with love and marriage - a kind of tragicomic sequel to A Midsummer Night's Dream. HMR