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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THOMAS KYD Volume One BRIAN VICKERS, EDITOR 646pp. Boydell and Brewer. 145 [pounds sterling]. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN FORD Volume Four BRIAN VICKERS, EDITOR 512pp. [...]

PLAYER KINGS Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, adapted by Robert Icke WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Noel Coward Theatre, London, until June 22, then touring There's a lovely moment at the end [...]

THE PERFORMER Art, life, politics RICHARD SENNETT 256pp. Allen Lane. 25 [pounds sterling]. Richard Sennett's The Performer starts small, 'On an AIDS ward'. Sennett's assistant Charles, a theatre director and [...]

SHAKESPEARE WITHOUT A LIFE MARGRETA DE GRAZIA 192pp. Oxford University Press. 25 [pounds sterling] (US $34.95). WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A brief life PAUL MENZER 280pp. Arden Shakespeare. Paperback, 14.99 [pounds sterling]. [...]

COMPLETE WORKS SHAKESPEARE Edited by Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan and H. R. Woudhuysen 1,504pp. Arden Shakespeare. Paperback, 21.99 [pounds sterling]. MEASURE FOR MEASURE SHAKESPEARE Edited by A. [...]

SHAKESPEARE IN JEST INDIRA GHOSE 194pp. Routledge. Paperback, 17.99 [pounds sterling]. Shakespeare in Jest offers a pacy, readable account of humour and laughter in Shakespeare's works, from the repartee of [...]

THE TEMPEST SHAKESPEARE Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, until March 4 BY THE TIME Shakespeare came to write The Tempest he had already adopted the mantra 'reduce, reuse, recycle'. At 2,300 [...]

SHAKESPEARE AND BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILM GARRETT A. SULLIVAN, JR. 250pp. Cambridge University Press. 75[pounds sterling] (US $99.99). The title of Shakespeare and British World War Two Film immediately [...]

HENRYV SHAKESPEARE Donmar Warehouse, until April 9 The dating of most of Shakespeare's plays is pretty vague, but Henry V is different. In the chorus to Act V, Henry's triumphant [...]

LEARWIFE J. R. THORP 336pp. Canongate. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. When Shakespeare consulted the old chronicle play King Leir (1605), he would have immediately encountered the king's lament for his wife: [...]

OF HUMAN KINDNESS What Shakespeare teaches us about empathy PAULA MARANTZ COHEN 176pp. Yale University Press. 20 [pounds sterling] (US $24). Arguing that Shakespeare makes us better people is always [...]

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Almeida Theatre Long ago, Jack Jorgens, working out a typology for Shakespeare on film, reserved for visionary directors such as Orson Welles and Grigori Kozintsev the [...]

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS SHAKESPEARE Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until September 26 THERE'S BEEN MUCH SPECULATION about what Shakespeare might have written during lockdown. We've heard a [...]

BEN JONSON'S THEATRICAL PAEAN TO SHOPPING, his 1609 Entertainment at Britain's Burse composed for the opening of the New Exchange in the presence of James I, opens with a shopboy [...]

DEATH BY SHAKESPEARE Snakebites, stabbings and broken hearts KATHRYN HARKUP 368pp. Bloomsbury. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. UNTIMELY DEATHS IN RENAISSANCE DRAMA ANDREW GRIFFIN 208pp. University of Toronto Press. Can $60. HOW [...]

The article synopsizes published literature on the history and study of Renaissance English drama aside from the works of William Shakespeare. Topics include textual scholarship, editions, theater history and criticism; dramatists studied include Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.

The only authority for All's Well That Ends Well (whose composition is traditionally dated 1602-03) is the Folio of 1623. The textual problems in this play are well documented. Although [...]

Aaron Kunin CHARACTER AS FORM 256 pp. Bloomsbury. 70 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 4742 2271 6 Alberto Manguel FABULOUS MONSTERS Dracula, Alice, Superman and other literary friends 229 pp. Yale [...]

Stephen Greenblatt TYRANT Shakespeare on power 224pp. Random House. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84792 504 6 'Tragedy', wrote the Elizabethan courtier and poet Philip Sidney, 'maketh kings fear to [...]

Harry Berger Jr HARRYING Skills of offense in Shakespeare's Henriad 232pp. Fordham University Press. 59 [pounds sterling] (US $85). 978 0 232 566 626 Isabel Karremann THE DRAMA OF MEMORY [...]

An overview is presented of works on directing, acting, and staging performance s of William Shakespeare's plays. A bibliography follows.

An overview is presented of works on directing, acting, and staging performances of William Shakespeare's plays. A bibliography follows.

An overview is presented of works on directing, acting, and staging performances of William Shakespeare's plays. A bibliography follows.

One measure of the changing status of Shakespeare's First Folio during the eighteenth century is the number of editors who had their own working copy. Eric Rasmussen and Anthony West's [...]

Shakespeare OTHELLO National Theatre The threat to Cyprus from the Turkish fleet that so preoccupies the Venetian authorities at the beginning of Othello turns out to be something of a [...]

Jacqueline Jenkins and Mary Polito, editors THE HUMOROUS MAGISTRATE (OSBORNE) 57pp. 978 0 7190 8701 1 Margaret Jane Kidnie, editor THE HUMOROUS MAGISTRATE (ARBURY) 103pp. 978 0 7190 8699 1 [...]

Russell Jackson SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CINEMA 208pp. Oxford University Press. Paperback, 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 19 965946 3 Russell Jackson has his own entry on the Internet Movie [...]

Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker THE ROARING GIRL Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon until September 30 'Everyone in Middleton and Dekker's play struggles to describe its eponymous heroine, Moll. The roaring [...]

Marianne Novy SHAKESPEARE AND OUTSIDERS 224pp. Oxford University Press. Paperback, 16.99 [pounds sterling] (US $27.95). 978 0 19 964235 9 Thomas Kyd THE SPANISH TRAGEDY Edited by Michael Neill 304pp. [...]

Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, editors SHAKESPEARE BEYOND DOUBT Evidence, argument, controversy 283pp. Cambridge University Press. Paperback, 17.99 [pounds sterling] (US $29.99). 978 1 107 60328 8 Does it matter [...]

Thomas Middleton A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon Disguised as a doctor to aid an adulterous encounter in the RSC's A Mad World My Masters, Penitent Brothel [...]

Eric Rasmussen THE SHAKESPEARE THEFTS In search of the First Folios 215pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 230 10941 4 Eric Rasmussen and Anthony James West, editors THE SHAKESPEARE FIRST [...]