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Authors: William Shakespeare
64.
Sir Henry Wotton, letter dated 2 July 1613, in Logan Pearsall Smith, ed.,
The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton
(1970); also available at:
www.globe-theatre.org.uk/globe-theatre-fire.htm
.
65.
John Downes,
Roscius Anglicanus
(1708).
66.
William Winter, “
King Henry VIII
—Historical Comment,” in
Shakespeare on the Stage
(1911), pp. 516–64.
67.
The Times
(London), 21 October 1811.
68.
Ibid.
69.
Ibid.
70.
Percy Fitzgerald, “Kemble Manager,”
The Kembles
, Vol. I (1871), pp. 276–97.
71.
Lewis Carroll, diary entry for 22 June 1855,
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll
, Vol. I, ed. Roger Lancelyn Green (1953), pp. 53–54.
72.
C. B. Young, “The Stage History of ‘Henry VIII,’ ” in
Henry the Eighth
(1962), pp. xxxviii–l.
73.
Carroll,
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll
, Vol. I.
74.
Young, “The Stage History of ‘Henry VIII.’ ”
75.
Ibid.
76.
George C. D. Odell, “Scenery and Stage Decoration: Irving’s ‘Henry VIII’ 1892,”
Shakespeare: From Betterton to Irving
(1920, reprinted 1963), pp. 444–46.
77.
John Rankin Towse, “Henry Irving and Ellen Terry,”
Sixty Years of the Theatre: An Old Critic’s Memories
(1916), pp. 286–317.
78.
Ibid.
79.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree,
Henry VIII and His Court
(1910).
80.
J. C. Trewin, “End of an Era: 1906–1913,”
Shakespeare on the English Stage, 1900–1964: A Survey of Productions
(1964), pp. 38–50.
81.
Sporting Life
, 26 January 1911.
82.
Winter, “
King Henry VIII
—Historical Comment.”
83.
Margaret Webster,
Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage
(1972).
84.
“International News,”
Shakespeare Survey
1, 1948, pp. 112–17.
85.
George Jean Nathan,
The Theatre Book of the Year, 1946 & 1947
, pp. 156–58.
86.
“International News,”
Shakespeare Survey
1, 1948.
87.
Linda McJ. Micheli, “Margaret Webster’s ‘Henry VIII’: The Survival of ‘Scenic Shakespeare’ in America,”
Theatre Research International
, Vol. II, No. 3, Autumn 1986, pp. 213–22.
88.
Ibid.
89.
Ibid.
90.
Muriel St. Clare Byrne,
Shakespeare Survey
3, 1950, pp. 120–29.
91.
Ibid.
92.
Alice Venezky, “The 1950 Season at Stratford-upon-Avon—A Memorable Achievement in Stage History,”
Shakespeare Quarterly
II, 1951, pp. 73–77.
93.
Ibid.
94.
Muriel St. Clare Byrne,
Shakespeare Survey
3.
95.
Robert Herring,
Life and Letters and The London Mercury
, Vol. 62, July–September 1949, pp. 217–18.
96.
Audrey Williamson, “Coronation Fanfare,”
Contemporary Theatre: 1953–1956
(1956), pp. 1–21.
97.
Hugh M. Richmond,
Shakespeare in Performance: King Henry VIII
(1994), p. 111.
98.
Richmond,
King Henry VIII
, p. 109.
99.
Richmond,
King Henry VIII
, p. 119.
100.
Richmond,
King Henry VIII
, p. 109.
101.
Herbert S. Weil Jr,
Shakespeare Quarterly
38, Summer 1987, p. 238.
102.
Benedict Nightingale,
The Times
(London), 24 May 1991.
103.
Greg Evans,
Variety
, Vol. 367, No. 9, 30 June 1997, p. 72.
104.
Evans,
Variety
.
105.
Ben Brantley,
New York Times
, 27 June 1997, p. C3.
106.
Brantley,
New York Times
, 27 June 1997.
107.
James Rampton,
Independent
, 8 October 2003.
108.
Rob Reid,
Record
, 24 August 2004, p. B4.
109.
Reid,
Record
, 24 August 2004.
110.
Paul Taylor,
Independent
, 30 August 2006.
111.
Liisa Spink,
Cahiers Elisabéthain
, Complete Works Festival Special Issue (2007), p. 51.
112.
Spink,
Cahiers Elisabéthain
, Complete Works Festival Special Issue.
113.
Michael Billington,
Guardian
, 26 August 2006.
114.
Ibid.
115.
Charles Spencer,
Daily Telegraph
, 26 August 2006.
116.
Morning Star
, 30 August 2006.
117.
Taylor,
Independent
, 30 August 2006.
118.
Billington,
Guardian
, 26 August 2006.
119.
Paul Taylor,
Independent
, 27 May 2010.
120.
Ibid.
121.
Charles Spencer,
Telegraph
, 25 May 2010.
122.
Taylor,
Independent
, 27 May 2010.
123.
Spencer,
Telegraph
, 25 May 2010.
124.
Taylor,
Independent
, 27 May 2010.
125.
Hilary Spurling,
Spectator
, 18 October 1969.
126.
Misha Glenny,
Tribune
, 8 July 1983.
127.
Nicholas de Jongh,
Evening Standard
, 27 November 1996.
128.
Richmond,
Shakespeare in Performance: Henry VIII
, p. 16.
129.
Trevor Nunn,
Henry VIII
RSC programme notes, 1969.
130.
Daily Telegraph
, 10 October 1969.
131.
B. A. Young,
Financial Times
, 10 October 1969.
132.
Irving Wardle,
The Times
(London), 11 October 1969.
133.
Ibid.
134.
Ibid.
135.
Young,
Financial Times
, 10 October 1969.
136.
Harold Hobson,
Sunday Times
(London), 12 October 1969.
137.
Spurling,
Spectator
, 18 October 1969.
138.
Ronald Bryden,
Observer
, 12 October 1969.
139.
D.A.N. Jones,
The Listener
, 16 October 1969.
140.
Richmond,
Shakespeare in Performance: King Henry VIII
, p. 17.
141.
Irving Wardle,
The Times
(London), 16 June 1983.
142.
Ibid.
143.
James Fenton,
Sunday Times
(London), 19 June 1983.
144.
Gregory Doran, RSC programme notes, 1996.
145.
Michael Billington,
Guardian
, 28 November 1996.
146.
Shaun Usher,
Daily Mail
, 29 November 1996.
147.
Billington,
Guardian
, 28 November 1996.
148.
Richmond,
Shakespeare in Performance: King Henry VIII
, p. 145.
149.
Giles Gordon,
Spectator
, 22 November 1983.
150.
Donald Sinden,
Laughter in the Second Act
(1985), p. 267.
151.
Paul Lapworth,
Stratford Herald
, 28 November 1996.
152.
Philip Brockbank,
Times Literary Supplement
, 24 June 1983.
153.
Brockbank,
Times Literary Supplement
, 24 June 1983.
154.
John Barber,
Daily Telegraph
, 10 October 1969.
155.
Wotton, letter dated 2 July 1613.
156.
Richmond,
Shakespeare in Performance: King Henry VIII
, p. 3.
157.
Margot Heinemann,
Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama
, ed. A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway (1990), p. 179.
158.
Richmond,
Shakespeare in Performance: King Henry VIII
, p. 24.
159.
Sinden,
Laughter in the Second Act
, pp. 199–200.
160.
Ibid.
161.
Richmond,
Shakespeare in Performance: King Henry VIII
, p. 25.
162.
K.E.B.,
Nottingham Evening Post
, 10 October 1969.
163.
Sinden,
Laughter in the Second Act
, p. 267.
164.
Richard Griffiths, in an interview for the
Guardian
, 14 June 1983.
165.
Ned Chaillot,
Wall Street Journal
, 1 July 1983.
166.
J. C. Trewin,
The Lady
, 30 June 1983.
167.
Sheridan Morley,
Punch
, 22 June 1983.
168.
Benedict Nightingale,
The Times
(London), 28 November 1996.
169.
Shaun Usher,
Daily Mail
, 29 November 1996.
170.
Keith Brace,
Birmingham Post
, 10 October 1969.
171.
John Barber,
Daily Telegraph
, 10 October 1969.
172.
Brace,
Birmingham Post
, 10 October 1969.
173.
Nightingale,
The Times
, 28 November 1996.
174.
Paul Lapworth,
Stratford Herald
, 28 November 1996.
175.
Gordon Parsons,
Morning Star
, 11 October 1969.
176.
Charles Landstone,
Jewish Chronicle
, 16 October 1969.
177.
Betty Smith,
Stratford Herald
, 24 June 1983.
178.
Ned Chaillot,
Wall Street Journal
, 1 July 1983.
179.
Ian Hogg, in an interview with Terry Grierley for the
Birmingham Post
, 26 November 1996.
180.
Billington,
Guardian
, 28 November 1996.
181.
Naomi Koppel,
Evening Standard
, 29 November 1996.
182.
Philip Hope-Wallace,
Arts Guardian
, 10 October 1969.
183.
Parsons,
Morning Star
, 11 October 1969.
184.
Young,
Financial Times
, 10 October 1969.
185.
Alastair Macaulay,
Financial Times
, 28 November 1996.
186.
Macaulay,
Financial Times
, 28 November 1996.
187.
Judith H. Anderson,
Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing
(1984), p. 13.
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King John & Henry VIII
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Introduction and “Shakespeare’s Career in the Theater”: Jonathan Bate
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Directed by Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1899). Reproduced by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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