Contemporary (1914-)

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Overview

The nineteenth-century interest in recovering historical settings also fostered interest in the historical character of the Elizabethan theatre in experimental producers such as William Poel, whose attempts to recreate Elizabethan-style productions culminated in the rebuilding of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre by Sam Wanamaker in 1997. However, towards the end of the twentieth century the complexity and ambiguity of postmodern aesthetics invited the broadest range of reinterpretations of Shakespeare, a process further encouraged by the globalization of culture, so that there are no longer clear norms of production and interpretation, though study of performance has now equalled literary criticism as an academic means of interpreting Shakespeare.

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As You Like It, Cheek By Jowl, 1995
As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1998
As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1998
As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1961
Coriolanus, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1994
As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1961
All's Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1982
All's Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1982
The Comedy of Errors, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1990
Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1997
Edward IV (a version of Henry VI Part 3), Royal Shakespeare Company, 1988
Edward IV (a version of Henry VI Part 3), Royal Shakespeare Company, 1988
Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1966
Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1966
Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1966
Henry IV, Part 1, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1991

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