Shakespeare by Mcbean

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Introduction

The Plays:

All's Well That Ends Well: 1955 (Michael Denison & Joyce Redman); 1959 (Edith Evans & Zoe
Caldwell)
Antony and Cleopatra: 1945 (Claire Luce); 1953 (Peggy Ashcroft & Michael Redgrave)
As You Like It: 1946 (Paul Scofield); 1952 (Margaret Leighton & Laurence Harvey); 1957 (Richard
Johnson & Peggy Ashcroft); 1961 (Vanessa Redgrave & lan Bannen)
The Comedy of Errors: 1957 (Old Vic, Keith Michell)
Coriolanus: 1952 (Anthony Quayle & Mary Ellis); 1959 (Laurence Olivier & Edith Evans)
Cymbeline: 1949 (Leon Quartermaine); 1957 (Ashcroft & Johnson)
Hamlet: 1948 (Scofield/Rebert Helpman & Claire Bloom); 1956 (Alan Badel); 1958 (Michael
Redgrave); 1961 (lan Bannen)
Henry IV part l: 1951 (Richard Burton, Quayle & M Redgrave); 1953 (Barbara Jefford)
Henry IV part 2: 1951 (Burton & Harry Andrews)
Henry V: 1946 (Scofield); 1951 (Burton)
Henry VI parts 1, 2, 3: 1957/8 (Old Vic, Paul Denman & Jefford)
Henry VIII: 1949 (Quayle & Diana Wynyard); 1950 (Quayle & Gwen Frangcon Davies [&Rosanna
Quayle as Mary Tudor for the royal gala])
Julius Caesar: 1950 (John Gielgud); 1957 (Johnson & Alec Clunes)
King John: 1948 (Helpman, Bloom & Quayle); 1957 (Robert Harris & Clunes)
King Lear: 1950 (Gielgud); 1953 (M Redgrave); 1959 (Charles Laughton); 1962 (Paul Scofield)
Love's Labour's Lost: 1946 (Scofield & Valerie Taylor); 1956 (Badel & Geraldine McEwan)
Macbeth: 1946 (Harris & Taylor); 1949 (Godfrey Tearle & Wynyard); 1952 (Ralph Richardson &
Leighton); 1955 (Olivier & Vivien Leigh)
Measure for Measure: 1946 (Harris & Ruth Lodge); 1950 (Gielgud, Wynyard & Badel); 1956 (Emlyn
Williams & Diana Churchill)
The Merchant of Venice: 1946 (Laurence Payne & Beatrix Lehman); 1949 (Helpman & Wynyard);
1953 (M Redgrave & Ashcroft); 1956 (Williams & Margaret Johnston); 1961 (Denholm Elliot &
Dorothy Tutin)
The Merry Wives of Windsor: 1955 (Quayle, Angela Baddeley & Redman)
A Midsummer Night's Dream: 1949 (Wynyard, Andrews & John Slater); 1954 (Quayle & Jefford);
1959 (Laughton & Mary Ure)
Much Ado About Nothing: 1949 (Quayle & Wynyard); 1950 & 1955 (Gielgud & Ashcroft); 1958 (M
Redgrave & Googie Withers)
Othello: 1949 (Tearle & Wynyard); 1953 (Quayle & Jefford); 1956 (Andrews, Williams & Johnston);
1959 (Paul Robeson & Ure)
Pericles: 1947 (Scofield); 1968 (Richard Johnson)
Richard II: 1946 (Harris & Lehman); 1951 (M Redgrave & Heather Stannard)
Richard Ill: 1953 (Marius Goring & Yvonne Mitchell); 1961 (Christopher Plummer & Evans)
Romeo and Juliet: 1947 (Scofield and Lehman); 1954 (Laurence Harvey & Zena Walker); 1958
(Johnson & Tutin); 1961 (Brian Murray &Tutin)
The Taming of the Shrew: 1948 (Quayle & Wynyard); 1953 (Goring & Mitchell); 1954 (Keith Michell
& Jefford); 1960 (Peter O'Toole & Ashcroft)
Tempest: 1951 (M Redgrave, Badel & Burton); 1952 ( Richardson & Leighton); 1957 (Gielgud, Clunes
& Johnson)
Timon of Athens: 1956 (Old Vic- Ralph Richardson)
Titus Andronicus: 1955 (Olivier & Leigh)
Troilus and Cresslda: 1948 (Scofield & StannardO;) 1954 ( Harvey & Muriel Pavlov); 1960 (Tutin &
Denholm Elliot)
Twelfth Night: 1947 (Scofield & Lehman); 1955 (Olivier & Leigh); 1958 (Johnson & Tutin); 1961 (lan
Holm & Tutin)
The TwoGentlemen of Verona: 1960 (Patrick Wymark & Elliot)
The Winter's Tale: 1948 (Esmond Knight, Wynyard & Scofield); 1960 (Eric Porter & Ashcroft) -- .