ABSTRACT

Few playwrights have been more slandered, abused or honoured in performance than William Shakespeare.

First published in 1992, this collection of 300 stories focuses on Shakespeare’s plays on stage. Organised chronologically, it offers the reader the opportunity to witness the changes in theatrical approaches to Shakespeare from their own time to the present day.

This book will be of interest to those studying theatre, but also to those fascinated by the Shakespeare tradition.

chapter |7 pages

William Shakespeare

Actor and playwright, 1564–1616

chapter |3 pages

Samuel Pepys

Diarist, 1633–1703

chapter |4 pages

Colley Cibber

Actor, manager and playwright, 1671–1757

chapter |1 pages

Thomas Betterton

Actor, 1635–1710

chapter |1 pages

Barton Booth

Actor, 1681–1733

chapter |2 pages

John Dennis

Critic and playwright, 1657–1734

chapter |5 pages

Charles Macklin

Actor, c. 1700–1797

chapter |2 pages

James Quin

Actor, 1693–1766

chapter |5 pages

David Garrick

Actor, 1717–1779

chapter |1 pages

Peg Woffington

Actress, c. 1718–1760

chapter |1 pages

Susannah Cibber

Actress, 1714–1766

chapter |2 pages

John Henderson

Actor, 1747–1785

chapter |1 pages

Samuel Reddish

Actor, 1735–1785

chapter |2 pages

Mary Robinson

Actress, 1748–1800

chapter |1 pages

Dr Samuel Johnson

Writer, critic and lexicographer, 1709–1784

chapter |2 pages

James William Dodd

Actor, singer and manager,?1740–1796

chapter |2 pages

Master Betty

Actor, the ‘Young Roscius', 1791–1874

chapter |3 pages

John Philip Kemble

Actor, 1757–1823

chapter |1 pages

George Frederick Cooke

Actor, 1756–1812

chapter |2 pages

William Bensley

Actor, 1738–1817

chapter |2 pages

Solomon Franklin (‘Sol') Smith

Comedian and theatre manager, 1801–1869

chapter |4 pages

Sarah Siddons

Actress, 1755–1831

chapter |1 pages

Robert ‘Romeo' Coates

Actor, 1772–1848

chapter |6 pages

Edmund Kean

Actor, 1787–1833

chapter |1 pages

Charles Kemble

Actor, 1775–1854

chapter |4 pages

Robert William Elliston

Actor, 1774–1831

chapter |1 pages

Edwin Forrest

Actor, 1806–1872

chapter |3 pages

William Charles Macready

Actor, 1793–1873

chapter |1 pages

Lester Wallack

Actor and playwright, 1820–1888

chapter |2 pages

Ellen Terry

Actress, 1848–1928

chapter |3 pages

Charles Kean

Actor-manager, 1811–1868

chapter |1 pages

John Coleman

Actor, 18??-1904

chapter |6 pages

Sir Henry Irving

Actor-manager, 1838–1905

chapter |2 pages

Tommaso Salvini

Actor, 1830–1915

chapter |1 pages

Elena Modjeska

Actress, 1844–1909

chapter |1 pages

Barry Sullivan

Actor, 1821–1891

chapter |2 pages

Samuel Phelps

Actor, 1804–1878

chapter |1 pages

Dame Madge Kendal

Actress, 1849–1935 and W. H. Kendal Actor, 1843–1917

chapter |6 pages

Sir Frank Benson

Actor-manager, 1858–1939

chapter |1 pages

Ada Rehan

Actress, 1860–1916

chapter |1 pages

Constance Benson

Actress, 1860–1946

chapter |1 pages

Louis Calvert

Actor, 1859–1923

chapter |1 pages

Julia Neilson

Actress, 1868–1957

chapter |1 pages

Sir Barry Jackson

Director, 1879–1961

chapter |1 pages

William Poel

Actor, director and author, 1852–1934

chapter |1 pages

Mrs Patrick Campbell

Actress, 1865–1940

chapter |2 pages

Robert Mantell

Actor, 1854–1928

chapter |2 pages

Lewis Waller

Actor, 1860–1915

chapter |10 pages

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Actor-manager, 1853–1917

chapter |1 pages

Konstantin Stanislavski

Actor, director, teacher, 1863–1938

chapter |2 pages

Lilian Baylis

Manager, 1874–1937

chapter |6 pages

Harley Granville-Barker

Director, actor and author, 1877–1946

chapter |3 pages

Russell Thorndike

Actor, 1885–1972

chapter |2 pages

John Barrymore

Actor, 1882–1942

chapter |1 pages

Theodore Komisarjevsky

Director and designer, 1882–1954

chapter |2 pages

Sir Ralph Richardson

Actor, 1902–1983

chapter |3 pages

Max Reinhardt

Director, 1873–1943

chapter |3 pages

Charles Laughton

Actor, 1899–1962

chapter |1 pages

Fanny Rowe

Actress, 1913–1988

chapter |3 pages

Sir John Gielgud

Actor, 1904–

chapter |1 pages

Geoffrey Kendal

Actor-manager, 1909–

chapter |1 pages

Peggy Ashcroft

Actress, 1907–1991

chapter |2 pages

Sir Michael Redgrave

Actor, 1908–1985

chapter |3 pages

Sir Tyrone Guthrie

Director, 1900–1971

chapter |6 pages

Sir Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier of Brighton)

Actor, 1902–1989

chapter |1 pages

Alec Clunes

Director, actor, manager, 1912–1970

chapter |4 pages

Sir Donald Wolfit

Actor-manager, 1902–1968

chapter |3 pages

Peter Brook

Director, 1925–

chapter |1 pages

Claire Bloom

Actress, 1931–

chapter |2 pages

Diana Wynyard

Actress, 1906–1964

chapter |2 pages

Sir Alec Guinness

Actor, 1914–

chapter |3 pages

Franco Zeffirelli

Director and designer, 1923–

chapter |7 pages

Richard Burton

Actor, 1925–1984

chapter |1 pages

Trevor Nunn

Director, 1940-

chapter |2 pages

Peter Hall

Director, 1930–

chapter |4 pages

Simon Callow

Director, actor, writer, 1949–

chapter |1 pages

Sinead Cusack

Actress, 1949–

chapter |3 pages

Antony Sher

Actor, writer, 1949–

chapter |3 pages

Kenneth Branagh

Actor-manager, writer, 1960–

chapter |3 pages

Declan Donnellan

Director, 1953–

chapter |1 pages

Ian Charleson

Actor, 1950–1990