Shakespeare and (Eco-)Performance History

Elizabeth Schafer is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.

• 1. Shakespeare and (Eco-)Performance History: The Merry Wives of Windsor 2. ‘A Most pleasaunt and excellent conceited Comedie’: Early Performances of Merry Wives and the 1602 Quarto 3. ‘Wives May Be Witty and Yet Honest Too’ (4.2.96): Eliza Vestris and The Merry Wives of Windsor 4. ‘The Truth Being Known’ (4.4.62): Ellen Terry and The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1902 5. ‘More of the Quarto Than is Usual’: Terry Hands’s Merry Wives, 1968, 1975, and 1995 6. ‘The Fords and the Pages Were Obviously Tory Voters’: Bill Alexander RSC, 1985, and ‘Girls Hug’ Rachel Kavanaugh RSC, 2002 7. Geoffrey Rush’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Brisbane, 1987 8. ‘All Gold and Bounty’ (1.3.65): Leila Hipólito’s As Alegres Comadres, 2003 9. ‘Merriness Unbridled’: Christopher Luscombe’s The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Globe, 2008, 2010 10. ‘And nightly [. . .] Look you sing’ (5.5.66): Richard Jones’s Falstaff, Glyndebourne, 2009, 2013 11. ‘Sir John Goes into the Basket’: Physical Comedy in Wanawake Wa Heri wa Winsa, Shakespeare’s Globe, London, 2012 12. Looking for Herne’s Oak 13. The Epilogue