Performing Shakespeare

Shakespeare's plays have been in continuous production from the moment they were written (except for the period when the Puritans banned live theatre in England from 1642 to 1660). But the ways in which they've been performed, interpreted and staged has varied enormously over the last 400 years:

• Performers and Directors: from Shakespeare himself to David Tennant; Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Dominic Dromgoole

• Theatres and Companies: from the original Globe Theatre to the rebuilt Globe Theatre; from Lord Strange's Men to the Royal Shakespeare Company

• Performace History and Styles: from naturalism to surrealism, from kabuki to melodrama

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