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SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN Vol. 10, No. 4 FALL 1992 2 - SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN FALL 1992 SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN Shakespeare Bulletin is published by Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Begun in 1982 as the organ of the New Y ork Shakespeare Society, which Co-Editors: James P. Lusardi and June Schlueter, Lafayette College. now meets as a Columbia University Seminar, the journal formerly ap Contributing Editors: Bernice W. Kliman, Nassau Community Col peared bi-monthly; since 1990, it has been appearing as a quarterly. In lege, and Kenneth S. Rothwell, Univ. of Vermont. Founding Editor: 1992, it incorporated Shakespeare on Film Newsletter, which has been Seymour Isenberg. published since 1976. 1992-93 Editorial Board: Paul Bertram, Rutgers Univ.; Maurice SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS Charney, Rutgers Univ.; Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., A subscription to Shakespeare Bulletin is $10 per year for individuals Madison; Bernice W. Kliman, Nassau Community College; Naomi C. or institutions, $15 per year beginning Jan. 1,1993. Deadlines for writ Liebler, Montclair State College; Margaret Loftus Ranald, Queen’s ten contributions are Feb. 1 (Winter issue), May 1 (Spring issue), August College, CUNY. Editorial Assistant: Jill Riefenstahl. 1 (Summer issue), and November 1 (Fall issue). All correspondence should be sent to James P. Lusardi and June Schlueter, Co-Editors, Shakespeare Shakespeare Bulletin, ajournai of performance criticism and scholar Bulletin, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042. (215) 250-5245 or 5248. ship, provides commentary on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama through feature articles, theatre reviews, and book reviews. Its theatre COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR coverage serves as a record of production in New York and elsewhere in Chairpersons: James P. Lusardi, Lafayette College, and David Kastan, this country, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world. Columbia Univ. Articles appearing in Shakespeare Bulletin are indexed in The World Executive Board: Maurice Charney, Rutgers Univ.; Irene Dash, Hunter Shakespeare Bibliography and the MLA Bibliography. College; Seymour Isenberg; Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Madison; Bernice W. Kliman, Nassau Community College; June Schlueter, Lafayette College; Steven Urkowitz, City College of New York. CONTENTS Events....................................................... ........ 3 Break a Leg: Mickey Rooney’s Lame Puck Reinventing Shakespeare’s Globe? Robert F. Willson, Jr..................................... 41 A Report of Design Choices for the ISGC Globe The Pleasure of His Company: Paul Nelsen............................................... 5 Off-Beat Shakespeare A Minority Report on Louis Phillips................................................ 42 the Decisions of the Pentagram Conference Books on the Rialto.............................................................43 Franklin J. Hildy.......................................9 Book Reviews The Stratford, Ontario, Festival 1992: Macbeth: Critical Essays A Canadian’s Overview ed. by S. Schoenbaum Kenneth B. Steele...................................13 Irene G. Dash................................................ 43 The Tempest Stages of History: Shakespeare’s English Chronicles Dante Giammarco and William Pooley.. .18 by Phyllis Racken Romeo and Juliet Naomi Conn Liebler...................................... 44 Alex Newell.............................................19 Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism: Measure for Measure An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary Daniel J. Watermeier...............................20 by Philip C. Kolin Oregon Shakespeare Festival Felicia Hardison Londre................................45 Alan Armstrong.......................................22 Critical Analyses in English Renaissance Drama: New Jersey Shakespeare Festival A Bibliographic Guide Macbeth by Brownell Salomon Barbara Ann Lukács.................................28 Richard L. Nochimson..................................46 1 Henry IV Shakespeare, A Bibliographical Guide John Timpane...........................................29 ed. by Stanley Wells Much Ado About Nothing Frank Occhiogrosso....................................47 John Timpane...........................................30 Structure and Performance in Hamlet 2.2 Charles A. Hallett.....................................32 ISSN 0748-2558 Shakespeare on Film Orson Welles’ Othello and the Welles-Smith On the cover: Brian Bedford as the Duke, Leon Pownall as Escalus, and Restoration: Definitive Version? Colm Feore as Angelo in Stratford Festival's Measure for Measure. Photo David Impastato.......................................38 by Cylla von Tiedemann. FALL 1992 SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN - 3 EVENTS Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Box 9365, Boise, CONFERENCES ID 83707, (208) 336-9221. A Midsummer AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS Night’s Dream, in repertory, July-Sept. The Folger Institute. “ From Critic to Direc Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Box 158, tor: Teachers Staging Shakespeare,” Ralph Alan Ashland, OR 97520, (503) 482-4331.1993 Sea Cohen, Mar. 19-20; “ The Imperial Theme: son: Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Shakespeare and the Designs of Empire,” Night’s Dream, and John Webster’s The White Michael Neill, Friday afternoons, Jan. 29-Apr. Devil, Elizabethan Stage; Richard HI, Angus 16; “ Cultural Production in Seventeenth-Cen- Bowmer Theatre; Cymbeline, Black Swan. tury London and Paris,” Karen Newman, Mon day afternoons, Jan. 25-Apr. 12; “ The Histori Canada cal Imagination in the English Renaissance,” David Harris Sacks, Friday afternoons, Jan. 29- Stratford Festival, Box 520, Stratford, Ontario, Apr. 9; “ Renaissance Musical Magic and the Canada N5A 6V2, (519) 273-1600 or (800) 567- Historiography of Otherness,” Gary Tomlinson, 1600 (long distance) or (416) 363-4471 (from Wednesday afternoons, Jan. 27-Apr. 14; “ Re Toronto). 1993 season (May-November): naissance Paleography in England,” Laetitia THEATRE OFFERINGS Antony and Cleopatra and A Midsummer Yeandle, Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 18-June Night’s Dream, in repertory, Festival Theatre; 24. Middle Atlantic King John, in repertory, Tom Patterson The atre. “ Patronage and Patriarchy, Matronage and Independent Theatre Company, 99 Stanton Matriarchy,” a seminar with David Bevington, St., New York, NY 10002, (212) 353-3088. The United Kingdom Jan. 6-Mar. 10. The Newberry Library, Center Merry Wives of Windsor, Dec. 2-Jan. 23. for Renaissance Studies, 60 W. Walton St., Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Cen Chicago, IL 60610-3380, (312) 943-9090. Jean Cocteau Repertory, 330 Bowery, New tre, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS, (071) 638- York, NY 10012, (212) 677-0060. Much Ado 4141. Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference: About Nothing, Jan. 24-Mar. 26. and The Comedy of Errors, in repertory “The Reader, the Subject, and the Self in through Mar. 13, Barbican; Richard III, Jan. Early Modern Europe,” Mar. 25-27. Submit Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Allen 14-Feb. 20, Donmar Warehouse at Thomas ten-page papers by Jan. 8. Mark Vessey, Dept, town College, 2755 Station Ave., Center Val Neal’s, Earlham St., London WC2 9LD, (071) of English, Univ. of British Columbia, 397-1873 ley, PA 18034, (215) 282-3192. Macbeth, June 867-1150. East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada. 16-July 13; Twelfth Night, July 14-31. Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon- Ohio Shakespeare Conference: “ ‘There the The Shakespeare Theatre, The Lansburgh, 450 Avon, CV37 6BB, (0789) 295623. The Tam whole palace open’d’: Court and Society in 7th St.,NW, Washington, DC 20004, (202) 546- ing of the Shrew, As You Like It, The Winter’s Jacobean England, Mar. 25-27. David Evett, 4000. Hamlet, Nov. 17-Jan. 10; The Comedy Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Antony Dept, of English, Cleveland State Univ., Cleve of Errors, Jan. 26-Mar. 14. and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Theatre; land, OH 44115. Richard Brome’s A Jovial Crew, All’s Well South that Ends Well, Christopher Marlowe’s Shakespeare Association of America meets in Tamburlaine the Great, Thomas Middleton Atlanta, Apr. 1-3. Nancy Hodge, Southern Meth Alabama Shakespeare Festival, One Festival and William Rowley’s The Changeling, Swan odist Univ., Dallas, TX 75275. Dr., Montgomery, AL 36117-4605, (205) 277- Theatre. Richard III, Peter Whelan’s The 2273. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mar. 16- School of Night, The Other Place. The West Virginia Shakespeare and Renais July 10; 1 Henry IV, Apr. 6-July 11; 2 Henry sance Association meets at Marshall Univ., Apr. IV, May 25-July 10. Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London 8-10. Submit eight/ten-page papers by Jan. 15. SE1 9PX, (071) 633-0880. A Midsummer Edmund M. Taft, Dept, of English, Marshall Virginia Shakespeare Festival, The College of Night’s Dream, through Jan., Olivier Theatre. Univ., 400 Hal Greer Blvd., Huntington, WV William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185, 25755-2646. (804) 221-2674. Julius Caesar and All’s Well Touring Company That Ends Well, in repertory, July 2-25. Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance ACTER, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA Association Conference, cohosted by Northern West 93106-3170, (805) 893-2457 or 2911. Winter Arizona Univ. Medieval and Renaissance Stud tour of The Tempest by Actors from the Lon ies Committee and Arizona Center for Medieval Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Univ. of Colo don Stage: Stephen F. Austin State Univ., Jan. and Renaissance Studies, Apr. 8-11. Papers in rado at Boulder, Box 261, Boulder, CO 80309- 18-24; Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Jan.