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Rutter, Carol Chillington (2015) Shakespeare performances in England 2014. In: Holland, Peter, (ed.) Shakespeare Survey 68 : Shakespeare, origins and originality. Shakespeare Survey, 68 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 368-407. ISBN 9781107108844
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316258736.028
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1 January 2014. A day for totting things up, drawing lines in ledgers, balancing accounts. A day, invited by the two-faced god, to look backwards and forwards. In my case, a day to look back over six years writing this annual survey as I prepare to hand it over, at the end of year seven, to my (as yet) unidentified successor. I'm looking at my review diary, counting the nights (and days) I've spent in the theatre: to date, 127 productions; 32 plays; lacking only Pericles, Cymbeline and the three parts of Henry VI to make up the full canon. I've seen nine Dreams, eight Hamlets, eight Tempests. These numbers were perhaps to be expected, not least because 2012 was reckoned to be The Tempest's anniversary year. More interesting to me, statistically, are the five Winter's Tales I've seen: clearly, this once-popular play, fallen for a couple of decades out of the regular repertoire, is firmly back in the theatre. Equally suggestive, I'd say, are the three All's Well That Ends Wells and three Troilus and Cressidas I've reviewed: plays that used to be neglected but now look to be performed as often as Romeo and Juliet (marking an interesting post-modern shift, perhaps, in the love stories our appetites turn to). Then there are the one-offs, the deeply under-performed plays any spectator is lucky to cross off her hit list: King John, Henry VIII and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Though I can see, looking ahead at my ‘What's On in 2014’ that the RSC, for the first time since 1998, is staging Two Gents, and on the main stage, where it hasn't appeared since 1981 when it was staged as half of a bizarre double bill with Titus Andronicus, both plays radically chopped to fit on either side of an interval. Not one of John Barton's better ideas.)
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Series Name: | Shakespeare Survey | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781107108844 | ||||||
Book Title: | Shakespeare Survey 68 : Shakespeare, origins and originality | ||||||
Editor: | Holland, Peter | ||||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 68 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 736 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 368-407 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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