As You Like It (30 page)

1.
T. W. Baldwin,
The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company
(1927), p. 240.

2.
E. K. Chambers,
William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems
(1930), Vol. 2, p. 278.

3.
Cynthia Marshall, ed.,
As You Like It: Shakespeare in Production
(2004), p. 7.

4.
Ibid., p. 8, suggests a contemporary political reference to George I’s proclamation regarding hunting rights and the Black Act of 1723.

5.
Anthony Vaughan,
Born to Please: Hannah Pritchard, Actress, 1711–1768
(1979), p. 19.

6.
John Hill,
The Actor: or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing
(1755, reprinted 1972), pp. 61, 274.

7.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 12.

8.
Hill,
The Actor
, pp. 104–5.

9.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 12.

10.
For a full account of her life see Claire Tomalin,
Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Actress and the Prince
(1994).

11.
Leigh Hunt,
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: With Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries
(1850) Vol. I, pp. 148–49.

12.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, pp. 14–15.

13.
Charles H. Shattuck,
Mr. Macready Produces As You Like It: A Prompt-Book Study
(1962).

14.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, pp. 25–26.

15.
William Winter, “As You Like It,” in his
Shakespeare on the Stage
, second series (1915), pp. 215–341.

16.
Athenaeum
, 8 February 1851, quoted in Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 29.

17.
Observer, 2
March 1845, quoted in Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 30; Tire-sias in Greek mythology was the blind prophet of Thebes transformed into a woman for seven years.

18.
Jeanette Gilder,
The Critic
, New York, Vol. 141, No. 51, 16 December 1882, p. 348.

19.
Pall Mall Gazette
, 24 January 1885, quoted in Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 34.

20.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 34.

21.
Theatre
, 2 March 1885, quoted in Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 35.

22.
Mary Anderson,
A Few Memories: With Portraits
(London: 1896), p. 199.

23.
Jeanette Gilder,
The Critic
, New York, Vol. 12, No. 313, 28 December 1889, p. 329.

24.
Ibid.

25.
George Bernard Shaw,
Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw’s Writings on the Plays and Production of Shakespeare
, ed. Edwin Wilson (1961, reprinted 1971), pp. 23–35.

26.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 49.

27.
Ibid., p. 51.

28.
Oscar Asche,
Oscar Asche
(1929), p. 120.

29.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 55.

30.
Ibid., p. 53.

31.
Ibid.

32.
The Times
(London), 23 April 1919.

33.
Manchester Guardian
, 23 April 1919.

34.
Related in Sally Beauman, “The New Chairman,” in
The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades
(1982), pp. 47–67.

35.
J. C. Trewin,
Shakespeare on the Stage, 1900–1964: A Survey of Productions
(1964), pp. 127–98.

36.
Brooks Atkinson,
New York Times,
27 January 1950.

37.
The Times
(London), 30 April 1952.

38.
Muriel St. Clare Byrne,
Shakespeare Quarterly
, Vol. 8, Autumn 1957, pp. 461–92.

39.
H. Granville-Barker,
Plays and Players
, Vol. 4, No. 8, May 1957, p. 13.

40.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 64.

41.
Ibid., p. 67.

42.
Ibid., p. 68.

43.
Ibid.

44.
Ibid.

45.
Ibid., p. 69.

46.
Ibid.

47.
Ibid., p. 81.

48.
Irving Wardle,
The Times
(London), 4 October 1967.

49.
Dana Adams Schmidt,
New York Times
, 6 October 1967.

50.
Wardle,
The Times
(London), 4 October 1967.

51.
Martin Gottfried, “British Theater: ‘As You Like It,’ ” in his
Opening Nights: Theater Criticism of the Sixties
(1969), pp. 284–87.

52.
Wardle,
The Times
(London), 4 October 1967.

53.
Colin Chambers (RSC Literary Manager at the time) quoted in Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 33.

54.
Glenn Loney, “Shakespeare, the Canadian,”
Christian Century
, Vol. 94, No. 31, 5 October 1977, pp. 882–84.

55.
Roger Warren,
Shakespeare Survey
, Vol. 33, 1980, pp. 169–80.

56.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 60.

57.
Ibid., p. 69.

58.
Independent
, 4 January 1995.

59.
City Limits
, 12 December 1991.

60.
Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson, eds,
Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History
(1996), p. 6.

61.
Robert Brustein,
New Republic
, Vol. 221, No. 14, 4 October 1999, pp. 35–36.

62.
Lois Potter,
Shakespeare Quarterly
, Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 76–77.

63.
Potter,
Shakespeare Quarterly
.

64.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 65.

65.
Ibid., p. 86.

66.
Amelia Marriette, “Urban Dystopias: Reapproaching Christine Edzard’s
As You Like It,”
in
Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle
, ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray (2000), pp. 73–88.

67.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, p. 86.

68.
Ibid.

69.
Richard David, “Reality and Artifice,” in
Shakespeare in the Theatre
(1978).

70.
Bamber Gascoigne,
Spectator
, Vol. 207, No. 6943, 14 July 1961.

71.
J. W. Lambert,
Sunday Times
, 9 July 1961.

72.
Marshall,
As You Like It
.

73.
Penny Gay,
As She Likes It: Shakespeare’s Unruly Women
(1994).

74.
Roger Warren,
Shakespeare Quarterly
, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 1986.

75.
Benedict Nightingale,
New Statesman
, vol. 99, no. 2560, 11 April 1980.

76.
Irving Wardle,
The Times
(London), 5 April 1980.

77.
John Bowe, “Orlando,” in
Players of Shakespeare
, ed. Philip Brockbank (1985).

78.
Nicholas de Jongh,
Guardian
, 19 December 1985.

79.
Ibid.

80.
Marshall,
As You Like It
.

81.
Gregory Doran on his idea for the setting of
As You Like It
, 2000, interviewed by Nigel Cliff,
The Times
(London), 22 March 2000.

82.
Donald Baker,
Cahiers Elisabethains
, No. 18, October 1980.

83.
John Elsom,
Listener
, Vol. 98, No. 2526, 15 September 1977.

84.
B. A. Young,
Financial Times
, 9 November 1977.

85.
Sunday Times
, 11 November 1977.

86.
Robert Speaight,
Shakespeare Quarterly
, Vol. 24, No. 4, Autumn 1973.

87.
Jeremy Kingston,
Punch
, 20 June 1973.

88.
B. A. Young,
Financial Times
, 13 June 1973.

89.
Marshall,
As You Like It
, quoting from the
Financial Times’
review, 13 June 1973.

90.
Katharine Duncan-Jones, “The Play in Performance,” in
William Shakespeare: As You Like It
, ed. H. J. Oliver (2005).

91.
Bernard Levin in a review of “As You Like It,” in
Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company 1960–1963
, ed. John Goodwin (1964).

92.
Gascoigne,
Spectator
, 14 July 1961.

93.
J. W. Lambert,
Sunday Times
, 9 July 1961, quoted in Gay,
As She Likes It
.

94.
Noel Witts,
Plays and Players
, Vol. 25, No. 2, November 1977.

95.
Nicholas de Jongh,
Evening Standard
, 23 April 1992.

96.
Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson, “Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It,” in Players
of Shakespeare 2
, ed. Russell Jackson and Robert Smallwood (1988).

97.
Benedict Nightingale,
New Statesman
.

98.
Michael Billington,
Guardian
, 19 August 2005.

99.
Suzie Mackenzie,
Time Out,
2 January 1986.

100.
Warren,
Shakespeare Quarterly
.

101.
Michael Billington,
Guardian
, 13 June 1973.

102.
Ibid., 30 April 1996.

103.
Paul Taylor,
Independent
, 22 August 2005.

104.
Peter Holland,
English Shakespeares
(1997), quoting from the
Times Literary Supplement
, 8 May 1992.

105.
Benedict Nightingale,
The Times
(London), 12 April 1990.

106.
David, “Reality and Artifice.”

107.
Irving Wardle,
The Times
(London), 5 April 1980.

108.
Stanley Wells,
Shakespeare: The Poet and His Plays
(1997).

109.
Young,
Financial Times
, 9 November 1977.

110.
David Tennant, “Touchstone,” in
Players of Shakespeare 4
, ed. Robert Small wood (1998).

111.
Christopher Edwards,
Spectator
, Vol. 254, No. 8184, 18 May 1985.

112.
Susan Irvine,
Sunday Telegraph
, 21 August 2005.

113.
Charles Spencer,
Daily Telegraph
, 19 August 2005.

114.
Billington,
Guardian
, 19 August 2005.

115.
David, “Reality and Artifice.”

116.
Ibid.

117.
J. W. Lambert,
Sunday Times
, 17 June 1973.

118.
The Times
(London), 5 July 1961.

119.
Wardle,
The Times
(London), 5 April 1980.

120.
Duncan-Jones, “The Play in Performance.”

121.
Peter Holland,
Shakespeare Survey
, Vol. 44, 1991.

122.
Robert Smallwood,
Shakespeare Quarterly
, Vol. 41, No. 4, Winter 1990.

123.
John Peter,
Sunday Times
, 26 April 1992.

124.
John Mullan,
Times Literary Supplement
, 17 May 1996.

125.
Billington,
Guardian
, 30 April 1996.

126.
Gay,
As She Likes It
.

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