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Volume XXVII 2007/2008 The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal, Volume XXVII, 2007/2008 is pub- “There is an upstart crow beautifi ed with our feathers that, with his lished by Clemson University Digital Press. © 2008 Clemson University ISSN: 0886-2168 ‘tiger’s heart wrapped in a player’s hide,’ supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; being an absolute Johannes Factotum, in his conceit the only shake-scene in a coun- EDITOR try.” Elizabeth Rivlin — Robert Greene, Groatsworth of Wit (1592) INTERIM EDITOR Brian McGrath CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Z DIGITAL PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITORS For those persons who have become subscribers this year, I want to Ray Barfi eld, Wayne Chapman, Jonathan Field, Martin Jacobi, Michael LeMahieu, welcome you and extend my personal thanks to you, as well as to continuing Chantelle MacPhee, and Lee Morrissey subscribers, for your support. I know I speak for the journal’s editors, staff, and advisory board. Your help makes a great difference as the Center for Electronic BOOK REVIEW EDITOR and Digital Publishing (CEDP) endeavors to maintain high standards and Henry S. Turner, Rutgers University strives to do new things with this publication for Clemson University Digital ADVISORY BOARD Press (CUDP). The two shoulders of our publishing house are The South James Berg, Douglas Brooks, Pam Brown, Patricia Cahill, Ann C. Christensen, Katherine Carolina Review and The Upstart Crow. The latter is one reason Clemson is Conway, Herbert Coursen, Mary Agnes Edsall, Peter Erickson, John R. Ford, Walter associated with William Shakespeare’s good name (and Greene’s epithet). Haden, Chris Hassel, Maurice Hunt, Natasha Korda, Richard Levin, Bindu Malieckal, The Upstart Crow continues its transformation in the new millennium. Out- John McDaniel, Ian Frederick Moulton, Peter Pauls, Kaara Peterson, Jeanne Roberts, wardly, the annual has generated a new appearance—starting with volume and Jyotsna Singh XXI (2001). Inwardly, its organization, policies, and operating procedures BUSINESS MANAGER are are also new. In memory of Jim Andreas, late editor and co-founder (in Grace Ammons 1990) of the Clemson Shakespeare Festival, we decided to change the cover and include a special section each year to match the theme of the festival. ACCOUNTING FISCAL ANALYST Although, alas, the Clemson festival had its last season in spring 2008, we Pearl Parker plan to stick to the format for the journal, with themes announced in advance. Next year’s theme is cognate with that of the spring 2008 festival. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Emily Scism, Jillian Lang, and Charis Chapman As Interim Editor of The Upstart Crow, Brian McGrath has been a pleasure to work with, and I know I speak for my staff, too. In January 2009, COVER DESIGN Elizabeth Rivlin will return to duty as Editor from her recent maternity leave. Charis Chapman We congratulate her on the addition to her family. Another change to acknowledge is that, due to an austerity measure, EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE our university print shop was closed in June 2008 so that all printing for Editor, The Upstart Crow, Department of English, Clemson University, Strode Tower, Box Clemson University could be outsourced to private vendors. This has been 340523, Clemson, SC 29634-0523. Tel. (864) 656-3151. Fax (864) 656-1345. especially challenging as we at the digital press have had to shoulder work formerly performed for us by full-time graphic artists at the defunct Clemson SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1-year subscription for individuals (Vol. XXVI): $17 University Printing Services. We welcome Standard Register of Columbia, 1-year subscription for institutions (Vol. XXVI): $22 South Carolina, a commercial printer that utilizes a plant in Greensboro, 2-year subscription for individuals (Vols. XXVI-XXVII): $27 North Carolina, with a slightly smaller page format than earlier volumes, to 2-year subscription for institutions (Vols. XXVI-XXVII): $32 maintain essentially the same printing costs. I think you will observe some 3-year subscription for individuals (Vols. XXVI-XXVIII): $37 compensating, qualitative improvements, as well. 3-year subscription for institutions (Vols. XXVI-XXVIII): $42 Subscriptions and sales are crucial to running a successful journal. That’s Back issues are available at $15 (includes S&H). Complete sets are for sale at $300. why your help is appreciated. Tell your friends about us, visit our website, The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal is produced by the Center for Electronic and watch us grow at http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/crow/ and Digital Publishing for Clemson University Digital Press, using Microsoft® Word and Adobe© InDesign CS3 and Photoshop CS3. The Upstart Crow is set in Arial. Wayne K. Chapman CEDP Director / CUDP Executive Editor Printed by Standard Register, Columbia, South Carolina. Contents
Essays
Sharon O’Dair Virtually There: Shakespeare and Tourism in the Twenty-First Century ...... 5 John R. Ford Confessions of a Shakespearean Tourist: Discovering Natural Perspectives in the Secret Pleasures of Repertorial Recognition ...... 24 Marguerite Tassi Sportful Malice, or What Maria Wills: Revenge Comedy in Twelfth Night ...... 32 David Lucking To Tell My Story: Narrating Identity in Shakespeare ...... 52 Michael W. Shurgot Watching Richard Watching Buckingham: 3.7 of Richard III and Performance Criticism ...... 67
Performance Reviews
Peter J. Smith Looking Up: The 2008 Season at London’s Globe Theatre ...... 78 John R. Ford A Fool’s Stage: Royal Shakespeare Company Productions from Stratford, England, 2007 ...... 92 Silver Damsen Chicago Shakespeare Theater Season 2007-2008 ...... 98 Michael W. Shurgot Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2007 ...... 111 Mark Robert Dodd Measure for Measure at the 2007 Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Or, As the Director Likes It ...... 124
Book Reviews
Ellen McKay Robert Shaughnessy, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture, and Barbara Hodgdon, ed., Companion to Shakespeare and Performance ...... 138 Jason Cohen Sonia Massai, ed., World-Wide Shakespeares, and Ayanna Thompson, ed., Colorblind Shakespeare ...... 142 Daniel Vitkus Imtiaz Habib, Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677, and Emily Bartels, Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello ...... 146 Poems
Angelina Oberdan Vindication: In Response to the Documentary Shakespeare Behind Bars ...... 51 Dolores Stewart A Retired Gentleman’s Garden in Stratford-upon-Avon .....66 Frances Blessington Shakespeare’s Mulberry Tree ...... 76
List of Illustrations
The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe (2008) ...... 78 King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe (2008): David Calder as King Lear ...... 81 King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe (2008): Peter Hamilton-Dyer as Cornwall and Joseph Mydell as Gloucester ...... 82 King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe (2008): David Calder as King Lear and Jodie McNee as Cordelia ...... 83 A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe (2008): Siobhan Redmond as Titania, and Fairies ...... 84 A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe (2008): Robert Goodale as Snug, Peter Bankole as Flute, Jonathan Bond as Snout, Paul Hunter as Bottom, and Same Parks as Starveling ...... 86 The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe (2008): Serena Evans as Mistress Page, Christopher Benjamin as Falstaff, and Sarah Woodward as Mistress Ford ...... 90 Troilus and Cressida at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (2007-2008): Kevin O’Donnell as Troilus ...... 101 The Taming of the Shrew at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (2007-2008): Molly Glynn as Katharina and Ben Vicellio as Petruchio ...... 102 Cymbeline at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (2007-2008): Larry Yando as Cymbeline, Shanesia Davis as Queen, Chaon Cross as Imogen ....104 Cymbeline at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (2007--2008): Joe Sikora as Posthumus and Chaon Cross as Imogen ...... 105 Othello at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (2007-2008): Derrick Lee Weeden as Othello and Allison Batty as Desdemona ...... 106 Othello at Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Lesley Bevan as Emilia and Allison Batty as Desdemona ...... 107 Measure for Measure at Idaho Shakespeare Festival (2007): David Anthony Smith as Lucio and Mark Anthony Taylor as Pompey ...... 126 Measure for Measure at Idaho Shakespeare Festival (2007): Andrew May as Angelo and Laura Perrotta as Mariana ...... 128 Measure for Measure at Idaho Shakespeare Festival (2007): Andrew May as Angelo and Kathryn Cherasaro as Isabella ...... 134 Y Letter from the Interim Editor ...... 4 Call for Papers for The Upstart Crow Vol. XXVIII (2009) ...... 152
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Dear Readers,
I am proud to introduce Volume XXVII (2008) of The Upstart Crow. Build- ing on the 2007 Clemson Shakespeare Festival, the special feature of this is- sue is “Shakespeare and Tourism.” Who or what is a Shakespearean tourist? How does “tourism” or travel fi gure in Shakespeare’s plays? What do Shake- speare’s plays have to tell us about our twenty-fi rst century fascination with tourism and travel? These questions are addressed directly by the volume’s fi rst two essays, by Sharon O’Dair of the University of Alabama and John R. Ford of Delta State University. To speak of Shakespeare and tourism, O’Dair reminds us, is to speak of Shakespeare from a decidedly later, nineteenth-century perspec- tive. But given the impact of tourism on the environment, including travel to Stratford-upon-Avon, O’Dair wonders how “virtual” forms of tourism might off- set our twenty-fi rst century fascination with “being there.” John R. Ford, a con- fessed Shakespearean tourist, records in his essay the joys that accompany traveling between Shakespeare festivals. The arrangement of plays in reper- tory makes possible unexpected connections between characters, plays and playing spaces, which produce what Ford describes as “the secret pleasure of reportorial recognition”—a pleasure that comes precisely with “being there.” The issue, as always, cultivates a range of approaches to Shakespeare. Marguerite Tassi raises insightful if also troubling questions about revenge in Twelfth Night ; David Lucking considers the importance of storytelling to identity construction in Shakespeare’s plays but also, through a reading of Othello, the potential risks that accompany the telling of one’s story; and Michael W. Shur- got confronts the ethics of reviewing productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Additionally, our performance review section addresses a wide range of Shakespeare performance (from Idaho to London), and our book review sec- tion, under the expert guidance of Henry Turner of Rutgers University, features reviews of signifi cant contributions to the fi eld of Shakespeare studies. As an interim editor I have felt sometimes like a tourist, which seems only fi tting given the special feature of this issue, but I am pleased to report that Elizabeth Rivlin will return as editor with the 2009 issue on “Politics and the Citizen.” Thank you for continuing to support The Upstart Crow. We hope that you enjoy the issue.
Brian McGrath Elizabeth Rivlin with Interim Editor, Fall 2008 Editor