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"An Art as Lawful as Eating": A Symposium on Documents & Videos Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Spring 4-2005

PowerPoint Slides from The Winter's Tale Symposium

Peter Heyne

Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/ symposium_winters_tale_docs_videos by Peter Heyne, Master’s of English 2005 Part One:

The Play

in Art

Elizabeth Farren as Hermione c. 1780. William Hamilton, R.A. Leontes Looking at the Statue of Hermione, 1790. “Exit, pursued by a bear.” Act III scene 3, engraved 1792. Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1909. Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1909.

Thomas Charles Wageman’s painting of actor John Fawcett as Autolycus, 1828. John Cawse. Autolycus Selling His Wares, ca. 1830. 1833

Charles R. Leslie. Autolycus, 1836. Charles R. Leslie. Florizel and Perdita, 1837. From the Songs of Shakespeare, Engraved & printed by Duncan C. Dallas. 1843.. Augustus Leopold Egg. Autolycus, 1845. 1886 Charler Ricketts “Leontes” 1925 Comic actor William Evans-Burton (1804-1860) as Autolycus. Maurice Sendak, 1996. Part Two:

The Play on the Stage Comedy

or

Tragedy?

In 1672, John Dryden remarked of the play:

“the Comedy neither caus’d your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment.”

Quoted by Gideon Lester, the Resident Dramaturg of the American Repertory Theater, http://www.amrep.org/past/winter/winter1.html Post-Renaissance Productions

The play was popular until 1640, but not afterward during the Restoration.

First recorded performance in eighteenth century:

15 Jan. 1741 at Goodman’s Fields

11 Nov. 1741 at Covent Garden Augustan Age Adaptations:

David Garrick’s Florizel and Perdita, a Dramatic Pastoral at Drury Lane, 1756

Macnamara Morgan’s The Sheep-Shearing, or Florizel and Perdita at the rival Covent Garden Theatre, 1754

The entire plot of Leontes-Hermione was cut in favor of the romping pastoral scenes.

In 1771, the Covent Garden made the play into a little opera. Mrs. Sarah Siddons as Hermione. at Drury Lane, Kemble’s production of 1802. Charles Kean’s 1856 production at the Princess (102 straight shows!) Mr. Kean and a very young Ellen Terry as Leontes and Mamillius, respectively, 1856. This show was Terry’s debut. Mrs. Kean as Hermione, 1856. Charles Leslie paints Mrs. Kean as Hermione, 1856. Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Leontes at the Lyceum Theatre, 1887. Mary Anderson doubling as Hermione and Perdita!, 1887. Hermione, Perdita, and Leontes, Stage Postcard from 1903.

Frank Benson opened a two-week Shakespeare Festival season at Stratford-upon-Avon on April 20.

Among the plays his troupe presented were Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1905

Viola Allen An older Ellen Terry now as Hermione, 1906. .

Winthrop Ames’ production at the New Theatre in NY, 1910. Richard Flanagan’s Sixteenth Shakespeare Revival, Manchester 1911. 1911 1911 1911 1911 Paulina RSC 1948 RSC 1948 Paul Scofield

RSC 1948 Peter Brook directs John Gielgud as Leontes at the Phoenix, 1951. 1957 1957 RSC 1960, I.ii RSC 1960, III.ii Ian Holm

RSC 1960, IV.iv Peggy Ashcroft

RSC 1960, V.iii II.ii. The Soham Grammar School, 1962.

The all-student show ran 3 and a quarter hours! 1966 Edinburgh Festival with Jane Asher, the Beatles groupie Perdita and Florizel, 1966 Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival RSC 1969 with Judi Dench as Hermione RSC 1969 1978 Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival 1978 Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival RSC 1976

RSC 1976, Ian McKellen as Leontes RSC 1976, Ian McKellen as Leontes 1979 Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival 1980 BBC Production I.ii RSC 1981 with Patrick Stewart. II.i RSC 1981 with Patrick Stewart. V.iii RSC 1981 with Patrick Stewart. RSC 1986 with Jeremy Irons RSC 1986

IV.iv Leontes. 1987 Maryland Stage Company Hermione Veiled. 1987 Maryland Stage Company 1992 Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Directed by UD’s own Patrick Kelly. I.ii RSC 1992. Directed by Adrian Noble. III.ii RSC 1992. Directed by Adrian Noble.

1996 Oklahoma Shakespeare Festival. RSC 1999 2000, American Repertory Theater. Florizel and Perdita, American Repertory Theater, 2000. Bohemia 2001, Cornell. Sicilia, the Chapel 2001, Cornell. Leontes in all-female cast, 2001, Wellesley. 2001, London National Theater. RSC 2002 Set design for Sicilia, The Shakespeare Theater (D.C.), 2002. Live in Sicilia, The Shakespeare Theater (D.C.), 2002. Costume designs for Leontes and Hermione, The Shakespeare Theater (D.C.), 2002. Leontes and Mamillius, The Shakespeare Theater (D.C.), 2002. Set design for Bohemia, The Shakespeare Theater (D.C.), 2002. Live in Sicilia, The Shakespeare Theater (D.C.), 2002. Costume design for Autolycus, The Shakespeare Theater (D.C.), 2002. Leontes confronts Hermione, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2004. Mamillius and Hermione, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2004. Perdita and Florizel, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2004. Paulina reveals Hermione, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2004. Fairbanks Shakespeare Festival, 2004. Fairbanks Shakespeare Festival, 2004. Perdita talks flowers to the disguised Polixenes, Fairbanks Shakespeare Festival, 2004. Autolycus and the shepherds, Fairbanks, 2004.