Book contents
- Frontmatter
- ‘Jack hath not Jill’: Failed Courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare
- Truth and Art in History Plays
- Chronicles and Mythmaking in Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc
- King John and Embarrassing Women
- Golding’s Ovid, Shakespeare’s ‘Small Latin’, and the Real Object of Mockery in ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’
- Ovid and the Sonnets; or, did Shakespeare Feel the Anxiety of Influence?
- The Play of Sir Thomas More and Some Contemporary Events
- ‘Nobody’s Perfect’: Actors’ Memories and Shakespeare’s Plays of the 1590s
- The Boyhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines
- Shakespeare’s ‘Brawl Ridiculous’
- Shakespeare’s Handwriting
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1987–8
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 1987
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 1987
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- ‘Jack hath not Jill’: Failed Courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare
- Truth and Art in History Plays
- Chronicles and Mythmaking in Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc
- King John and Embarrassing Women
- Golding’s Ovid, Shakespeare’s ‘Small Latin’, and the Real Object of Mockery in ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’
- Ovid and the Sonnets; or, did Shakespeare Feel the Anxiety of Influence?
- The Play of Sir Thomas More and Some Contemporary Events
- ‘Nobody’s Perfect’: Actors’ Memories and Shakespeare’s Plays of the 1590s
- The Boyhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines
- Shakespeare’s ‘Brawl Ridiculous’
- Shakespeare’s Handwriting
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1987–8
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 1987
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Summary
The list includes some amateur productions and adaptations. Information is taken from programmes, supplemented by reviews, held in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library. Details have been verified wherever possible, but the nature of the material prevents corroboration in every case.
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Leicester Haymarket Studio Company,
Leicester and tour: 18 Feb. 1987-
Director: Helena Kaut-Howson
Designer: Bunny Christie
Helena: Kate O'Connell
The action was set among the international jet set, and interpreted as a duel between Helena and Paroles to win Bertram.
Leeds Playhouse, Leeds: 4-27 June 1987
Director: John Harrison
Designer: Fran Thompson
Helena: Jenny Funnell
Set in the Napoleonic wars, and interpreted as domestic comedy, with Helena and Bertram equally serious.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
The National Theatre at the Olivier, London: 9 April 1987-
Director: Peter Hall
Designer: Alison Chitty
Music: Dominic Muldowney
Antony: Anthony Hopkins
Cleopatra: Judi Dench
Octavius: Tim Pigott-Smith
See Shakespeare Survey 41, pp. 176-8.
Contact Theatre, Manchester: 20 May-13 June 1987
Director: Brigid Larmour
Designer: Nettie Edwards
Antony: Wyllie Longmore
Cleopatra: Clare Dow
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- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 149 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990