Shakespeare meme

[alchimie]

Mentioned by cmcmck and taken from oursin -- and well timed, with all the Shakespeare in my life right now!

Italics = film or tv, bold = seen on stage:

All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet (only once on stage but many films)
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth (and hopefully a new production this month!)
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream (I was in it as a teen, and have seen at least 8-10 different productions since)
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III (once on stage & many many watchings of the Ian McKellan film)
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest (my first Shakespeare, I saw it at 12 and fell head-over-heels for it)
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night (so many stage productions plus at least one film)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale


There are a few I feel like I might have seen on stage but not quite remembered -- I went to a lot of live theatre in my 20s and I will pretty much go to see any production of any Shakespeare play that I can reasonably get to. (I would do the same for Beaumont and Fletcher but thus far I have had no luck finding them performed.)

Comments

[oursin]

Hah - I've actually seen some Beaumont and Fletcher (and Fletcher collaborating with other people), but I'd have to search my memory a bit for exactly what - also Marston, Middleton, Webster, Ford, and Jonson. A certain proportion of this in small spaces over, under or behind pubs. Also every so often some eminent thesp will decide to do a London season of obscurish Jacobethan plays.

[alchimie]

I'm envious! I have not been paying attention very much in the last decade, but certainly prior to that I had no luck finding random Elizabethan & Jacobean theatre, although there is a richness of 'West Coast premieres' of local playwrights and such things. At least Northern California provides a moderate amount of outdoor Shakespeare in the summer.

It just occurs to me that given all the things I have found lately on YouTube (Kenneth Branagh performing Christopher Fry!), I clearly ought to look there.

[oursin]

I find that even in London these things come in phases - there was the time when there was a spate of productions of various works of Aphra Behn in different venues, and I don't think there was a particular anniversary or anything, it was just one of those synchronicity things.

[cmcmck]

I've finally got round to it myself this morning! :o)

One can never have too much of the swan of Avon.