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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Royal Shakespeare Company</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Shakespeare_Company.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b0/Royal_Shakespeare_Company.svg/200px-Royal_Shakespeare_Company.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b0/Royal_Shakespeare_Company.svg/300px-Royal_Shakespeare_Company.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b0/Royal_Shakespeare_Company.svg/400px-Royal_Shakespeare_Company.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="277" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">RSC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Ltd.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">23 April 1879</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(director)" title="Peter Hall (director)">Peter Hall</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founded at</th><td class="infobox-data">Stratford-upon-Avon</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Charity</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data">Charity incorporated under <a href="/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data">Promote <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s plays to a truly diverse audience and their relevance to today's society.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Patron" class="mw-redirect" title="Patron">Patron</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Interim Executive Directors</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Sandeep Mahal and Vicky Cheetham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main organ</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Board of Trustees</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Expenses <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">(2019)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pound_Sterling" class="mw-redirect" title="Pound Sterling">£</a>82.98 million</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><a href="/wiki/Financial_endowment" title="Financial endowment">Endowment</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">(2019)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pound_Sterling" class="mw-redirect" title="Pound Sterling">£</a>86.43 million</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Staff</th><td class="infobox-data">1205 (in 2019)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rsc.org.uk/">www<wbr />.rsc<wbr />.org<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Royal Shakespeare Company</b> (<b>RSC</b>) is a major <a href="/wiki/British_theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="British theatre">British theatre</a> company, based in <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a>, Warwickshire, England. The company employs over 1,000 staff and opens around 20 productions a year. The RSC plays regularly in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, Stratford-upon-Avon, and on tour across the UK and internationally. </p><p>The company's home is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it has redeveloped its <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="Royal Shakespeare Theatre">Royal Shakespeare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swan_Theatre_(Stratford)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swan Theatre (Stratford)">Swan theatres</a> as part of a £112.8-million "Transformation" project. The theatres re-opened in November 2010, having closed in 2007. </p><p>As well as the <a href="/wiki/Plays_of_Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Plays of Shakespeare">plays of Shakespeare</a> and his contemporaries, the RSC produces new work from living artists. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Company_history">Company history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Company history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royalshakespearetheatre-080911.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Royalshakespearetheatre-080911.jpg/220px-Royalshakespearetheatre-080911.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Royalshakespearetheatre-080911.jpg/330px-Royalshakespearetheatre-080911.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Royalshakespearetheatre-080911.jpg/440px-Royalshakespearetheatre-080911.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1936" /></a><figcaption>Renovated Royal Shakespeare Theatre in <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a> in 2011</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stratford_RST.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Stratford_RST.jpg/220px-Stratford_RST.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Stratford_RST.jpg/330px-Stratford_RST.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Stratford_RST.jpg 2x" data-file-width="348" data-file-height="281" /></a><figcaption>Royal Shakespeare Theatre in <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a> in 2003</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_early_years">The early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There have been theatrical performances in Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare's day, though the first recorded performance of a play written by Shakespeare himself was in 1746 when Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford Grammar School, organised a charitable production to fund the restoration of <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_funerary_monument" title="Shakespeare's funerary monument">Shakespeare's funerary monument</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Ward_(actor)" title="John Ward (actor)">John Ward</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>-based company, the <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire_Company_of_Comedians" title="Warwickshire Company of Comedians">Warwickshire Company of Comedians</a>, agreed to perform it. A surviving copy of the playbill records that the company performed <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-wind_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wind-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first building erected to commemorate Shakespeare was <a href="/wiki/David_Garrick" title="David Garrick">David Garrick</a>'s <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jubilee_Pavilion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jubilee Pavilion (page does not exist)">Jubilee Pavilion</a> in 1769, and there have been at least 17 buildings used to perform Shakespeare's plays since. </p><p>The first permanent commemorative building to Shakespeare's works in the town was a theatre built in 1827, in the gardens of New Place, but has long since been demolished. The RSC's history began with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which was the brainchild of a local brewer, Charles Edward Flower. He donated a 2-acre (0.81 ha) site by the River Avon and in 1875 launched an international campaign to build a theatre in the town of Shakespeare's birth. The theatre, a Victorian-Gothic building seating just over 700 people, opened on 23 April 1879, with a performance of <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i>, a title which gave ammunition to several critics. </p><p>The Memorial, a red brick Gothic cathedral, designed by <i>Dodgshun and Unsworth</i> of <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, was unkindly described by <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">Bernard Shaw</a> as "an admirable building, adaptable to every purpose except that of a theatre." From 1919, under the direction of <a href="/wiki/William_Bridges-Adams_(Theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Bridges-Adams (Theatre director)">William Bridges-Adams</a> and after a slow start, its resident New Shakespeare Company became one of the most prestigious in Britain. The theatre received a <a href="/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a> of Incorporation in 1925, which gave it status. </p><p>On the afternoon of 6 March 1926, when a new season was about to commence rehearsals, smoke was seen. Fire broke out, and the mass of <a href="/wiki/Half-timbered" class="mw-redirect" title="Half-timbered">half-timbering</a> chosen to ornament the interior provided dry tinder. By the following morning the theatre was a blackened shell. The company transferred its Shakespeare festivals to a converted local cinema. Fund-raising began for the rebuilding of the theatre, with generous donations arriving from philanthropists in <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">America</a>. </p><p>In January 1928, following an open competition, 29-year-old <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Scott" title="Elisabeth Scott">Elisabeth Scott</a> was unanimously appointed architect for the new theatre which became the first important work erected in the United Kingdom from the designs of a female architect.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> George Bernard Shaw commented that her design was the only one that showed any theatre sense. Her modernist plans for an <a href="/wiki/Art_deco" class="mw-redirect" title="Art deco">art deco</a> structure came under fire from many directions but the new building was opened triumphantly on <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s birthday, 23 April 1932. Later it came under the direction of Sir <a href="/wiki/Barry_Vincent_Jackson" class="mw-redirect" title="Barry Vincent Jackson">Barry Jackson</a> in 1945,<sup id="cite_ref-Billington_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Billington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Quayle" title="Anthony Quayle">Anthony Quayle</a> from 1948 to 1956 and <a href="/wiki/Glen_Byam_Shaw" title="Glen Byam Shaw">Glen Byam Shaw</a> 1957–1959, with an impressive roll-call of actors. Scott's building, with some minor adjustments to the stage, remained in constant use until 2007 when it was closed for a major refit of the interior. </p><p>Timeline: </p><p>1932 – New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens, abutting the remains of the old. </p><p>1961 – Chartered name of the corporation and the Stratford theatre becomes 'Royal Shakespeare.' </p><p>1974 – The Other Place opened, created from a prefabricated former store/rehearsal room in Stratford. </p><p>1986 – The Swan Theatre opened, created from the shell of the 1879 Memorial Theatre. </p><p>1991 – Purpose-built new Other Place, designed by Michael Reardon, opens. </p><p>September 2004 – The vision for the renewal of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre transformation is announced. </p><p>July 2006 – The Courtyard Theatre opens with a staging of Michael Boyd's Histories. </p><p>November 2010 – The Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres re-open following their transformation. </p><p>March 2016 – The Other Place was reinstated as a 200-seat studio theatre. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_RSC">The RSC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The RSC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Foundation_and_history">Foundation and history</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Foundation and history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1959, while still the director-designate of the Memorial Theatre, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a> announced that the formation of a permanent company would be a primary objective. <a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Addenbrooke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Addenbrooke (page does not exist)">David Addenbrooke</a> wrote of Hall's belief that Shakespeare, more than any other dramatist, needed a 'style', a tradition and unity of direction and acting.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 14 January 1960, Hall's first policy statement as director also proposed the acquisition of a second theatre, in London, to be used as a city outlet for selected Stratford productions. The RSC was formally established on 20 March 1961 with the royal announcement that the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre would henceforth be known as the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="Royal Shakespeare Theatre">Royal Shakespeare Theatre</a> and the company as the Royal Shakespeare Company. </p><p>The critic <a href="/wiki/Michael_Billington_(critic)" title="Michael Billington (critic)">Michael Billington</a>, summarising these events, wrote: "In 1960 the twenty-nine-year-old Peter Hall formally took charge at Stratford-upon-Avon and set about turning a star-laden, six-month Shakespeare festival into a monumental, year-round operation built around a permanent company, a London base and contemporary work from home and abroad. Looking back, it is difficult to realise just how radical Hall's dream was at the time; or indeed how much opposition there was to the creation of what became officially known in March 1961 as the Royal Shakespeare Company."<sup id="cite_ref-Billington_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Billington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_Barton_(director)" title="John Barton (director)">John Barton</a> had been appointed associate director in January 1960,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was followed in 1962 by <a href="/wiki/Michel_Saint-Denis" title="Michel Saint-Denis">Michel Saint-Denis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brook" title="Peter Brook">Peter Brook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Williams_(actor)" title="Clifford Williams (actor)">Clifford Williams</a> who joined the company as resident directors. John Bury was appointed head of design in 1964. The repertoire was also widened to take in modern work and classics other than Shakespeare. </p><p>In 1962, strong opposition to the establishment of a London base for the RSC came from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">Royal National Theatre</a> which – led by <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Chandos" title="Viscount Chandos">Viscount Chandos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> – wished to be the sole subsidised company operating in London. Following a deal with <a href="/wiki/Prince_Littler" title="Prince Littler">Prince Littler</a>, managing director of Associated Theatre Properties, the RSC established the <a href="/wiki/Aldwych_Theatre" title="Aldwych Theatre">Aldwych Theatre</a> as its London base for productions transferred from Stratford to London, its stage redesigned to match the RST's apron stage. </p><p>Twenty years later, in the summer of 1982, the company took up London residence in both the Barbican Theatre and The Pit studio space in the <a href="/wiki/Barbican_Centre" title="Barbican Centre">Barbican Centre</a> under the auspices of the City of London. The RSC was closely involved in the design of these two venues. In 2002 it left the Barbican after a series of allegedly poor seasons, partly because the then artistic director <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> wanted to develop the company's touring performances. His decision means the company has no regular London home. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Innovation_and_growth">Innovation and growth</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Innovation and growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The RSC had first tackled its need for a small auditorium in 1971. At the insistence of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Trevor_Nunn" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Trevor Nunn">Sir Trevor Nunn</a> (who had taken over as artistic director in 1968), the company hired <a href="/wiki/The_Place_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Place (London)">The Place</a> off the <a href="/wiki/Euston_Road" title="Euston Road">Euston Road</a> in London and constructed its own theatre space for an audience of 330, seated on raked wooden benches. Two seasons of plays were staged in 1972 and 1973, none suitable for the Aldwych. In December 1973 <a href="/wiki/Buzz_Goodbody" title="Buzz Goodbody">Buzz Goodbody</a>, the company's first female director,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> drew up a plan for what would become <a href="/wiki/The_Other_Place_(theatre)" title="The Other Place (theatre)">The Other Place</a> studio theatre in Stratford, designed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Reardon_(English_architect)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Reardon (English architect)">Michael Reardon</a> to seat 140 people, which opened to a first and highly successful season in 1974. The name chosen for the new studio space was favoured within the company because it implied an alternative theatre, but also because it is a quotation from <i>Hamlet</i>. </p><p>In August 1976, Nunn staged <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> with a minimalist set at The Other Place, playing for 2 hours 15 minutes without an interval. The small, nearly round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters. Both <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> in the title role and <a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a> as Lady Macbeth received exceptionally favourable reviews. The production transferred to London, opening at the <a href="/wiki/Donmar_Warehouse" title="Donmar Warehouse">Donmar Warehouse</a> in September 1977 before its further transfer to the larger <a href="/wiki/Young_Vic" title="Young Vic">Young Vic</a> venue for a two-month season. It was also recorded for transmission by <a href="/wiki/Thames_Television" title="Thames Television">Thames Television</a>. In 2004, members of the RSC voted Dench's performance the greatest by an actress in the history of the company. </p><p>Summing up this triumphant period, <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> critic <a href="/wiki/Michael_Billington_(critic)" title="Michael Billington (critic)">Michael Billington</a> later wrote: "[In 1977] the RSC struck gold. This was, in fact, the perihelion of Trevor Nunn's ten-year reign as the company's sole Artistic Director and Chief Executive (in 1978 he began to share power with Terry Hands). In London, the company opened a new studio space at the <a href="/wiki/Donmar_Warehouse" title="Donmar Warehouse">Donmar Warehouse</a> with plays by Barker, Taylor, Bond and Brecht. Its Aldwych repertory combined the usual Stratford transfers with <a href="/wiki/Peter_Nichols_(playwright)" title="Peter Nichols (playwright)">Nichol</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Privates_on_Parade" title="Privates on Parade">Privates on Parade</a></i>, Ibsen's <i>Pillars of the Community</i> and Brecht's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Days_of_the_Commune" title="The Days of the Commune">The Days of the Commune</a></i>. At the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Terry Hands and actor Alan Howard had a marathon year working on <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(play)" title="Henry V (play)">Henry V</a></i>, a virtually uncut, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_part_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, part 1">Henry VI, part 1</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_part_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, part 2">Henry VI, part 2</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_part_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, part 3">Henry VI, part 3</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coriolanus (play)">Coriolanus</a></i>. And the action at The Other Place included Jonson, Ford, Musset, Gems and Rudkin. No other company in the world could match that output for quantity and quality".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nunn and Hands were joint artistic directors of the RSC when the company opened <a href="/wiki/Swan_Theatre_(Stratford)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swan Theatre (Stratford)">The Swan</a>, its third theatre in Stratford. The Swan Theatre, also designed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Reardon_(English_architect)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Reardon (English architect)">Michael Reardon</a>, has a deep <a href="/wiki/Thrust_stage" title="Thrust stage">thrust stage</a> and a galleried, intimate 450-capacity auditorium. The space was to be dedicated to playing the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries, the works of European writers and the occasional work of Shakespeare. The theatre was launched on 8 May 1986 with a production of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Noble_Kinsmen" title="The Two Noble Kinsmen">The Two Noble Kinsmen</a></i> by William Shakespeare and <a href="/wiki/John_Fletcher_(playwright)" title="John Fletcher (playwright)">John Fletcher</a> (not published until 1634 and thought to be Shakespeare's last work for the stage). It was directed by <a href="/wiki/Barry_Kyle" title="Barry Kyle">Barry Kyle</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Costumes_and_props">Costumes and props</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Costumes and props"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The RSC's costume department is 'the largest in-house costume-making workshop in British theatre' and 'world-renowned'.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, the RSC raised over £8 million for a project to update the costume and prop department.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alistair McArthur, head of costume, called the old working space "Dickensian" and added, "If we knew there was rain coming we'd have to clear everything off the table the night before."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The prop-makers design and make many of their own props for the many productions.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 'Prop Shop' in Stratford-upon-Avon is the studio in which most of the props are made.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Troubled_times">Troubled times</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Troubled times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nunn (who had been appointed to follow Hall's tenure at the National Theatre in 1968) ceded his RSC executive directorship in 1986 to his co-artistic director <a href="/wiki/Terry_Hands" title="Terry Hands">Terry Hands</a>, who bore the brunt of media hostility during a difficult few years for the company. Hands took the decision to suspend the RSC's residency at The Barbican Theatre and The Pit during the winter season of 1990–91, thus vacating the capital for the first time in 30 years. This was seen as essential if the RSC was to secure an increase in subsidy from the Arts Council.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Shortly after that decision <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> returned to the RSC to take over from Hands as artistic director and chief executive. The company had serious funding problems. Noble's decision to sever all RSC connections with the Barbican Centre, funded by the Corporation of the City of London, was widely condemned,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and towards the end of his tenure things began to go terribly wrong, partly through his pursuit and support of the so-called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Fleet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Project Fleet (page does not exist)">Project Fleet</a>, a radical scheme aimed at rescuing the RSC from its financial crisis by replacing the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with a crowd-pleasing 'Shakespeare Village' and streamlining the company's performance structure and ensemble principle.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="A_21st-century_renaissance">A 21st-century renaissance</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: A 21st-century renaissance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>None of Noble's plans came to fruition. He left the job, an unhappy man, in March 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Boyd_(director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Boyd (director)">Michael Boyd</a> then assumed control of the RSC, now burdened with a deficit of £2.8 million. By a combination of artistic excellence and quiet husbandry, including a year-long <a href="/wiki/Complete_Works_(RSC_festival)" title="Complete Works (RSC festival)">Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival</a> (begun in April 2006 in collaboration with other theatre companies) plus a financially successful London season at the <a href="/wiki/Novello_Theatre" title="Novello Theatre">Novello Theatre</a> in 2006, Boyd slowly rebuilt the company's fortunes and reputation </p><p>In 2007 he launched the long-awaited Stratford theatre redevelopments, including construction of the temporary <a href="/wiki/Courtyard_Theatre" title="Courtyard Theatre">Courtyard Theatre</a> while work was in progress, designed to house his RSC Histories cycle before its transfer to the <a href="/wiki/Roundhouse_(venue)" title="Roundhouse (venue)">Roundhouse</a> in London in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Talking of these achievements with typical modesty he told the <i>Evening Standard</i> in December 2007 ('The Man Who Remade the RSC'): "There was a bit of gardening to do, but we are now beginning to show signs of walking the walk." 'The Histories' ensemble went on to win three Olivier awards in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, that same year the RSC commissioned a completely new edition of Shakespeare's First Folio, titled "<a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> Complete Works" and published by <a href="/wiki/Modern_Library" title="Modern Library">Modern Library</a>. </p><p>To provide balance, Simon Trowbridge in <i>A Royal Shakespeare Company Book</i>, published in 2017, is highly critical of aspects of the Boyd years, including his decision to redevelop the Royal Shakespeare Theatre as a second Swan Theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The RSC is the sole British member theatre of the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_the_Theatres_of_Europe" title="Union of the Theatres of Europe">Union of the Theatres of Europe</a>. </p><p>In March 2008, the RSC launched a manifesto 'Stand up for Shakespeare',<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a campaign to promote a positive experience of Shakespeare for children and young people. The tenets of this manifesto, <i>Do It on Your Feet, See It Live, Start It Earlier</i> form the basis of the work of the Education department. </p><p>In 2010, the RSC opened a new suite of education spaces on Waterside. </p><p>In 2011, BP began to subsidised the RSC's £5 ticket scheme for 16 to 25-year-olds.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In summer 2011 the company undertook a residency in <a href="/wiki/Park_Avenue_Armory" title="Park Avenue Armory">Park Avenue Armory</a>, New York, running a series of performances and an accompanying education programme in partnership with the <a href="/wiki/NYC_Department_of_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="NYC Department of Education">NYC Department of Education</a>. </p><p>In 2012, the RSC produced the World Shakespeare Festival, a celebration of 'Shakespeare as the world's playwright' working with UK and international arts organisations, and including the <a href="/wiki/Globe_to_Globe_Festival" title="Globe to Globe Festival">Globe to Globe Festival</a> by Shakespeare's Globe. The same year, planning permission was granted by Stratford District Council to reinstate <a href="/wiki/The_Other_Place_(theatre)" title="The Other Place (theatre)">The Other Place</a>. Funding for the new theatre came from a £3 million grant from the Arts Council England, raised through the National Lottery. Funding was also received from the <a href="/wiki/Gatsby_Charitable_Foundation" title="Gatsby Charitable Foundation">Gatsby Charitable Foundation</a>, The Backstage Trust, and from public donations; this is the final phase of the Transformation project. </p><p>Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, a new project to broadcast the company's productions in cinemas around the world and stream them into schools was announced in May 2013. The project began with Shakespeare's <a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)"><i>Richard II</i></a>, starring <a href="/wiki/David_Tennant" title="David Tennant">David Tennant</a>, in November 2013, and followed up with <i>Henry IV</i> parts 1 and 2 and <i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</i> in 2014. </p><p>In February 2016, Artistic Director Gregory Doran's productions of <i>Henry IV Part I</i> and <i>Henry IV Part II</i>, and <i>Henry V</i> went on tour in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong as part of the King & Country Tour. The same year, the Royal Shakespeare Company also opened their first permanent exhibition, entitled The Play's The Thing.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 23 April 2016, the RSC performed a one night extravaganza, called 'Shakespeare Live!'. Broadcast on BBC Two from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, it marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's Death. It involved a collection of Shakespeare scenes and monologues with appearances from <a href="/wiki/David_Tennant" title="David Tennant">David Tennant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Tate" title="Catherine Tate">Catherine Tate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Dame Judi Dench</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch" title="Benedict Cumberbatch">Benedict Cumberbatch</a> and even one from <a href="/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles, Prince of Wales">Prince Charles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2019, the actor <a href="/wiki/Mark_Rylance" title="Mark Rylance">Mark Rylance</a> resigned from the RSC over its sponsorship deal with oil company <a href="/wiki/BP" title="BP">BP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2019, the RSC announced that it would be ending its partnership with BP at the end of year following criticism of its association with the oil company. A week before, school students threatened to boycott the theatre company if it did not sever links with the firm. A spokesperson for the RSC explained that "Young people are now saying clearly to us that the BP sponsorship is putting a barrier between them and their wish to engage with the RSC".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2021, the RSC announced five new members to its board of trustees: Andrew Miller, Amanda Parker, <a href="/wiki/Winsome_Pinnock" title="Winsome Pinnock">Winsome Pinnock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justine_Themen" title="Justine Themen">Justine Themen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ayanna_Thompson" title="Ayanna Thompson">Ayanna Thompson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was announced that <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Evans_(actor)" title="Daniel Evans (actor)">Daniel Evans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tamara_Harvey" title="Tamara Harvey">Tamara Harvey</a> would become joint Artistic Directors from June 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their first season was announced on 16 January 2024 commencing from April.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Artistic_directors">Artistic directors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Artistic directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a> (1960–1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> (1968–1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terry_Hands" title="Terry Hands">Terry Hands</a> (1978–1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Hands" title="Terry Hands">Terry Hands</a> (1986–1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> (1991–2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Boyd_(director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Boyd (director)">Michael Boyd</a> (2003–2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a> (2012–2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erica_Whyman" title="Erica Whyman">Erica Whyman</a> (2021–2023) (Acting Artistic Director)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Evans_(actor)" title="Daniel Evans (actor)">Daniel Evans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tamara_Harvey" title="Tamara Harvey">Tamara Harvey</a> (2023– )</li></ul> <p><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theatres">Theatres</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Theatres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The RSC has three permanent theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="Royal Shakespeare Theatre">Royal Shakespeare Theatre</a>, a 1,060-seat theatre with <a href="/wiki/Stage_(theatre)#Thrust_stage" title="Stage (theatre)">thrust stage</a> (re-opened 24 November 2010 after Transformation project)<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Swan_Theatre_(Stratford)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swan Theatre (Stratford)">Swan Theatre</a>, a smaller <a href="/wiki/Stage_(theatre)#Thrust_stage" title="Stage (theatre)">thrust stage</a>, capacity 461<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Place_(theatre)" title="The Other Place (theatre)">The Other Place</a>, a studio theatre, rehearsal room and development space that opened in April 2016<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The Courtyard Theatre was built as a temporary replacement for The Other Place theatre to house the company's work when the RST and Swan were closed for the Transformation project. It provided a full-scale working prototype for the new RST's auditorium, seating 1,045 people around a thrust stage. It was also used in 2012 for productions in the <a href="/wiki/World_Shakespeare_Festival" title="World Shakespeare Festival">World Shakespeare Festival</a> including <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> in an Indian setting. The Courtyard Theatre was replaced by The Other Place, which was reinstated as a 200-seat studio theatre in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2021, a temporary 500-seat outdoor theatre was built in the Swan Gardens named the Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre. The theatre was built due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> to allow productions to return following the Government guidance, beginning with Phillip Breen's production of <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> running during summer 2021. </p><p>The company's London presence has included tenancies of the <a href="/wiki/Aldwych_Theatre" title="Aldwych Theatre">Aldwych Theatre</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Place_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Place (London)">The Place</a> in Duke's Road, Euston, the <a href="/wiki/Donmar_Warehouse" title="Donmar Warehouse">Donmar Warehouse</a> in <a href="/wiki/Covent_Garden" title="Covent Garden">Covent Garden</a>, the Barbican Theatre and The Pit at the <a href="/wiki/Barbican_Centre" title="Barbican Centre">Barbican Centre</a> in the City of London. There have also been seasons at The <a href="/wiki/Mermaid_Theatre" title="Mermaid Theatre">Mermaid Theatre</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Almeida_Theatre" title="Almeida Theatre">Almeida Theatre</a> (1988 and 1989), the <a href="/wiki/Roundhouse_(venue)" title="Roundhouse (venue)">Roundhouse</a> in Camden, the <a href="/wiki/Young_Vic" title="Young Vic">Young Vic</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Playhouse_Theatre" title="Playhouse Theatre">Playhouse Theatre</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Novello_Theatre" title="Novello Theatre">Novello Theatre</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gielgud_Theatre" title="Gielgud Theatre">Gielgud Theatre</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Newcastle" title="Theatre Royal, Newcastle">Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne</a> is the third home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, alongside Stratford-upon-Avon and London.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Key_productions">Key productions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Key productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 50em;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus" title="Coriolanus">Coriolanus</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> as Coriolanus, <a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave" title="Vanessa Redgrave">Vanessa Redgrave</a> as Valeria, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hardy" title="Robert Hardy">Robert Hardy</a> as Sicinius Velutus, <a href="/wiki/Edith_Evans" title="Edith Evans">Edith Evans</a> as Volumnia, and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Finney" title="Albert Finney">Albert Finney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_Ure" title="Mary Ure">Mary Ure</a> as Roman citizens. (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brook" title="Peter Brook">Peter Brook</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> as Lear, <a href="/wiki/Irene_Worth" title="Irene Worth">Irene Worth</a> as <a href="/wiki/Goneril" title="Goneril">Goneril</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patience_Collier" title="Patience Collier">Patience Collier</a> as <a href="/wiki/Regan_(King_Lear)" title="Regan (King Lear)">Regan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a> as <a href="/wiki/Cordelia_(King_Lear)" title="Cordelia (King Lear)">Cordelia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jeffrey" title="Peter Jeffrey">Peter Jeffrey</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Albany" title="Duke of Albany">Duke of Albany</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Church" title="Tony Church">Tony Church</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Cornwall" title="Duke of Cornwall">Duke of Cornwall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Webb_(actor)" title="Alan Webb (actor)">Alan Webb</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Gloucester" title="Earl of Gloucester">Earl of Gloucester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Fleming_(actor)" title="Tom Fleming (actor)">Tom Fleming</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Kent" title="Earl of Kent">Earl of Kent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brian_Murray_(actor)" title="Brian Murray (actor)">Brian Murray</a> as <a href="/wiki/Edgar" title="Edgar">Edgar</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Booth" title="James Booth">James Booth</a> as <a href="/wiki/Edmund_(King_Lear)" title="Edmund (King Lear)">Edmund</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clive_Swift" title="Clive Swift">Clive Swift</a> as Oswald, and <a href="/wiki/Alec_McCowen" title="Alec McCowen">Alec McCowen</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_fool" title="Shakespearean fool">Fool</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RSCGreatest_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RSCGreatest-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Measure_for_Measure" title="Measure for Measure">Measure for Measure</a></i> directed by John Blatchley and starring <a href="/wiki/Marius_Goring" title="Marius Goring">Marius Goring</a> as <a href="/wiki/Angelo_(Measure_for_Measure)" title="Angelo (Measure for Measure)">Angelo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a> as Isabella, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Fleming_(actor)" title="Tom Fleming (actor)">Tom Fleming</a> as Vincentio, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Richardson" title="Ian Richardson">Ian Richardson</a> as Lucio, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jeffrey" title="Peter Jeffrey">Peter Jeffrey</a> as Escalus, <a href="/wiki/Clive_Swift" title="Clive Swift">Clive Swift</a> as Pompey and <a href="/wiki/Ian_Holm" title="Ian Holm">Ian Holm</a> as Claudio. (1962)</li> <li><i>The <a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Roses_(Shakespeare)" class="mw-redirect" title="The War of the Roses (Shakespeare)">Wars of the Roses</a></i>, adaptation of the <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_part_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, part 1">Henry VI</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> plays, directed by Sir <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Ian_Holm" title="Ian Holm">Ian Holm</a> as <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Warner_(actor)" title="David Warner (actor)">David Warner</a> as <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England" title="Henry VI of England">Henry VI</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ashcroft" title="Peggy Ashcroft">Peggy Ashcroft</a> as <a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou" title="Margaret of Anjou">Margaret of Anjou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sinden" title="Donald Sinden">Donald Sinden</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York" title="Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York">Duke of York</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Hardwick" title="Paul Hardwick">Paul Hardwick</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Humphrey,_Duke_of_Gloucester" title="Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester">Duke of Gloucester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Janet_Suzman" title="Janet Suzman">Janet Suzman</a> as <a href="/wiki/Joan_of_Arc" title="Joan of Arc">Joan of Arc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brewster_Mason" title="Brewster Mason">Brewster Mason</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Richard_Neville,_16th_Earl_of_Warwick" title="Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick">Earl of Warwick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roy_Dotrice" title="Roy Dotrice">Roy Dotrice</a> as <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward IV of England">Edward IV</a>. (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marat/Sade" title="Marat/Sade">Marat/Sade</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Weiss" title="Peter Weiss">Peter Weiss</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brook" title="Peter Brook">Peter Brook</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Ian_Richardson" title="Ian Richardson">Ian Richardson</a> as the herald, <a href="/wiki/Clive_Revill" title="Clive Revill">Clive Revill</a> as Marat, <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Magee_(actor)" title="Patrick Magee (actor)">Patrick Magee</a> as de Sade and <a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> as <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Corday" title="Charlotte Corday">Charlotte Corday</a>. (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Homecoming" title="The Homecoming">The Homecoming</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a>, world premiere directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a> (June 1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Staircase_(play)" title="Staircase (play)">Staircase</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Magee_(actor)" title="Patrick Magee (actor)">Patrick Magee</a> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a> with <a href="/wiki/David_Warner_(actor)" title="David Warner (actor)">David Warner</a> in the title-role (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brook" title="Peter Brook">Peter Brook</a> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Old_Times" title="Old Times">Old Times</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)" title="Julius Caesar (play)">Julius Caesar</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra">Antony and Cleopatra</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Janet_Suzman" title="Janet Suzman">Janet Suzman</a> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/John_Barton_(director)" title="John Barton (director)">John Barton</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Ian_Richardson" title="Ian Richardson">Ian Richardson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pasco" title="Richard Pasco">Richard Pasco</a>, alternating the roles of Richard and Bolingbroke (1973–74)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Travesties" title="Travesties">Travesties</a></i> by Tom Stoppard, starring John Wood, world premiere directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Wood_(director)" title="Peter Wood (director)">Peter Wood</a> (June 1974)</li> <li><i>The Marrying of Ann Leete</i> by <a href="/wiki/Harley_Granville_Barker" class="mw-redirect" title="Harley Granville Barker">Harley Granville Barker</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Mia_Farrow" title="Mia Farrow">Mia Farrow</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(director)" title="David Jones (director)">David Jones</a> (September 1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Ben_Kingsley" title="Ben Kingsley">Ben Kingsley</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Buzz_Goodbody" title="Buzz Goodbody">Buzz Goodbody</a> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i>, starring Ian McKellen and <a href="/wiki/Francesca_Annis" title="Francesca Annis">Francesca Annis</a>, directed by Trevor Nunn (March 1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i>, starring Judi Dench and <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sinden" title="Donald Sinden">Donald Sinden</a>, directed by John Barton (April 1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Iceman_Cometh" title="The Iceman Cometh">The Iceman Cometh</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a>, with Alan Tllvern taking over the role of Hickey from the "indisposed" <a href="/wiki/Ian_Holm" title="Ian Holm">Ian Holm</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Davies_(director)" title="Howard Davies (director)">Howard Davies</a> (May 1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Errors_(1976_musical)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Comedy of Errors (1976 musical)">The Comedy of Errors</a></i>, a musical by Trevor Nunn and <a href="/wiki/Guy_Woolfenden" title="Guy Woolfenden">Guy Woolfenden</a> (September 1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wild_Oats_(play)" title="Wild Oats (play)">Wild Oats</a></i> by John O'Keeffe, starring <a href="/wiki/Alan_Howard_(actor)" title="Alan Howard (actor)">Alan Howard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Irons" title="Jeremy Irons">Jeremy Irons</a>, directed by Clifford Williams (December 1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a><sup id="cite_ref-RSCGreatest_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RSCGreatest-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> (1976–77)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Privates_on_Parade" title="Privates on Parade">Privates on Parade</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Nichols_(playwright)" title="Peter Nichols (playwright)">Peter Nichols</a>, world premiere directed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Blakemore" title="Michael Blakemore">Michael Blakemore</a> (February 1977)</li> <li><i>Destiny</i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Edgar_(playwright)" title="David Edgar (playwright)">David Edgar</a>, world premiere directed by Ron Daniels (May 1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Jon_Amiel" title="Jon Amiel">Jon Amiel</a> with <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Peck" title="Bob Peck">Bob Peck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Petherbridge" title="Edward Petherbridge">Edward Petherbridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roger_Rees" title="Roger Rees">Roger Rees</a> (1978)</li> <li><i>The Greeks</i> directed and adapted from <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_Barton_(director)" title="John Barton (director)">John Barton</a> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Nicholas_Nickleby_(play)" title="The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)">The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby</a></i> adapted for the stage by <a href="/wiki/David_Edgar_(playwright)" title="David Edgar (playwright)">David Edgar</a> with music by opera composer Stephen Oliver, world premiere directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Caird_(director)" title="John Caird (director)">John Caird</a> (1980), winner of a <a href="/wiki/Drama_Desk_Special_Award" title="Drama Desk Special Award">Drama Desk Special Award</a> in 1982</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carrie_(musical)" title="Carrie (musical)">Carrie</a></i>, based on <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Carrie_(novel)" title="Carrie (novel)">1974 horror novel</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Hands" title="Terry Hands">Terry Hands</a> with a book by <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_D._Cohen" title="Lawrence D. Cohen">Lawrence D. Cohen</a>, lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Dean_Pitchford" title="Dean Pitchford">Dean Pitchford</a>, and music by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Gore" title="Michael Gore">Michael Gore</a>. The Royal Shakespeare Company co-produced the Pre-Broadway try-out in the U.K.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Michael_Gambon" title="Michael Gambon">Michael Gambon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antony_Sher" title="Antony Sher">Antony Sher</a> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Hands" title="Terry Hands">Terry Hands</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi">Derek Jacobi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_Cusack" title="Sinéad Cusack">Sinéad Cusack</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Alexander_(director)" title="Bill Alexander (director)">Bill Alexander</a> starring Sir <a href="/wiki/Antony_Sher" title="Antony Sher">Antony Sher</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(musical)" title="Les Misérables (musical)">Les Misérables</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Claude-Michel_Schoenberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Claude-Michel Schoenberg">Claude-Michel Schoenberg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alain_Boublil" title="Alain Boublil">Alain Boublil</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> (1985–2019)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_liaisons_dangereuses_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Les liaisons dangereuses (play)">Les liaisons dangereuses</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Alan_Rickman" title="Alan Rickman">Alan Rickman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Duncan" title="Lindsay Duncan">Lindsay Duncan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Juliet_Stevenson" title="Juliet Stevenson">Juliet Stevenson</a>, world premiere directed by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Davies_(director)" title="Howard Davies (director)">Howard Davies</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Pryce" title="Jonathan Pryce">Jonathan Pryce</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titus_Andronicus" title="Titus Andronicus">Titus Andronicus</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Deborah_Warner" title="Deborah Warner">Deborah Warner</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Brian_Cox_(actor)" title="Brian Cox (actor)">Brian Cox</a> (1988)</li> <li><i>The Plantagenets</i> adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_part_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, part 1">Henry VI, part 1</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_part_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, part 2">part 2</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_part_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VI, part 3">part 3</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Anton_Lesser" title="Anton Lesser">Anton Lesser</a> as <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Fiennes" title="Ralph Fiennes">Ralph Fiennes</a> as <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England" title="Henry VI of England">Henry VI</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Waller" title="David Waller">David Waller</a> as Duke of Gloucester (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> with <a href="/wiki/Willard_White" title="Willard White">Willard White</a> as <a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> as <a href="/wiki/Iago" title="Iago">Iago</a> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Master_Builder" title="The Master Builder">The Master Builder</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> starring <a href="/wiki/John_Wood_(English_actor)" title="John Wood (English actor)">John Wood</a> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Winter%27s_Tale" title="The Winter's Tale">The Winter's Tale</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Noble" title="Adrian Noble">Adrian Noble</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stephens" title="Robert Stephens">Robert Stephens</a><sup id="cite_ref-RSCGreatest_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RSCGreatest-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Russell_Beale" title="Simon Russell Beale">Simon Russell Beale</a> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coriolanus (play)">Coriolanus</a></i> directed by David Thacker starring <a href="/wiki/Toby_Stephens" title="Toby Stephens">Toby Stephens</a> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/This_England:_The_Histories" title="This England: The Histories">This England: The Histories</a></i>, a season of all Shakespeare's sequential history plays (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> directed by Michael Boyd starring <a href="/wiki/Toby_Stephens" title="Toby Stephens">Toby Stephens</a> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Crucible" title="The Crucible">The Crucible</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Dominic_Cooke" title="Dominic Cooke">Dominic Cooke</a> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pericles,_Prince_of_Tyre" title="Pericles, Prince of Tyre">Pericles</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Dominic_Cooke" title="Dominic Cooke">Dominic Cooke</a> (2006)</li> <li>Repertory performances of <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Seagull" title="The Seagull">The Seagull</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> starring <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frances_Barber" title="Frances Barber">Frances Barber</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> (2007)</li> <li><i>The Histories</i> in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Roundhouse (2008)<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a>, with <a href="/wiki/David_Tennant" title="David Tennant">David Tennant</a> as Hamlet and <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Stewart" title="Patrick Stewart">Patrick Stewart</a> as Claudius (2008)<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical" title="Matilda the Musical">Matilda</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>, book by <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Kelly_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dennis Kelly (writer)">Dennis Kelly</a>, music and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Minchin" title="Tim Minchin">Tim Minchin</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Warchus" title="Matthew Warchus">Matthew Warchus</a> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost">Love's Labour's Lost</a></i> directed by Christophe Luscombe, with <a href="/wiki/Edward_Bennett_(actor)" title="Edward Bennett (actor)">Edward Bennett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Terry" title="Michelle Terry">Michelle Terry</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Hall_Parts_One_%26_Two" title="Wolf Hall Parts One & Two">Wolf Hall</a></i> based on the two novels by <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Mantel" title="Hilary Mantel">Hilary Mantel</a>, adapted for the stage by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Poulton" title="Mike Poulton">Mike Poulton</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Herrin" title="Jeremy Herrin">Jeremy Herrin</a>, produced in <a href="/wiki/London%27s_West_End" class="mw-redirect" title="London's West End">London's West End</a> and on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2015).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oppenheimer_(play)" title="Oppenheimer (play)">Oppenheimer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Morton-Smith" title="Tom Morton-Smith">Tom Morton-Smith</a>, directed by Angus Jackson and starring <a href="/wiki/John_Heffernan_(British_actor)" title="John Heffernan (British actor)">John Heffernan</a> as J Robert Oppenheimer. (2015)<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Simon_Russell_Beale" title="Simon Russell Beale">Simon Russell Beale</a> and Mark Quarterly, designed by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Brimson_Lewis" title="Stephen Brimson Lewis">Stephen Brimson Lewis</a>, in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Imaginarium_Studios" title="The Imaginarium Studios">The Imaginarium Studios</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imperium_(play_cycle)" title="Imperium (play cycle)">Imperium (play cycle)</a>: Conspirator</i> and <i>Imperium: Dictator</i> adapted from <a href="/wiki/Robert_Harris_(novelist)" title="Robert Harris (novelist)">Robert Harris</a>' trilogy by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Poulton" title="Mike Poulton">Mike Poulton</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Richard_McCabe" title="Richard McCabe">Richard McCabe</a> as Marcus Tullius <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_De_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter De Jersey">Peter De Jersey</a> as Gaius <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> (2017, Stratford Season) (2018, London Transfer).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra">Antony and Cleopatra</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Iqbal_Khan_(director)" title="Iqbal Khan (director)">Iqbal Khan</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Josette_Simon" title="Josette Simon">Josette Simon</a> and Antony Byrne in the title roles (2017).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus" title="Coriolanus">Coriolanus</a></i> directed by Angus Jackson, with <a href="/wiki/Sope_Dirisu" title="Sope Dirisu">Sope Dirisu</a> as Coriolanus (2017).</li> <li>Angus Jackson also directed <i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)" title="Julius Caesar (play)">Julius Caesar</a></i> in 2017.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titus_Andronicus" title="Titus Andronicus">Titus Andronicus</a></i> directed by Blanche McIntyre, with <a href="/wiki/David_Troughton" title="David Troughton">David Troughton</a> in the title role (2017).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Edmondson" title="Adrian Edmondson">Adrian Edmondson</a> starred as Malvolio in Christopher Luscombe's <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> (2017).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a> directed a puppet-based production of <i><a href="/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)" title="Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)">Venus and Adonis</a></i> in 2017.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Godwin" title="Simon Godwin">Simon Godwin</a> directed <a href="/wiki/Paapa_Essiedu" title="Paapa Essiedu">Paapa Essiedu</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2016, before it came back for a UK tour and shows in America in 2018.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a> and with <a href="/wiki/Antony_Sher" title="Antony Sher">Antony Sher</a> in the title role, premiered in 2016 and was revived for a short run in 2018.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Polly_Findlay" title="Polly Findlay">Polly Findlay</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Eccleston" title="Christopher Eccleston">Christopher Eccleston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Niamh_Cusack" title="Niamh Cusack">Niamh Cusack</a> (2018).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Erica_Whyman" title="Erica Whyman">Erica Whyman</a>, premiered in 2018, with a UK tour scheduled for 2019.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i> directed by Fiona Laird (2018).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida" title="Troilus and Cressida">Troilus and Cressida</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a>, with music from <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Glennie" title="Evelyn Glennie">Evelyn Glennie</a> (2018).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Timon_of_Athens" title="Timon of Athens">Timon of Athens</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Simon_Godwin" title="Simon Godwin">Simon Godwin</a> (2018).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boy_in_the_Dress_(musical)" title="The Boy in the Dress (musical)">The Boy in the Dress</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Walliams" title="David Walliams">David Walliams</a>, book by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Ravenhill" title="Mark Ravenhill">Mark Ravenhill</a>, music and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Williams" title="Robbie Williams">Robbie Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guy_Chambers" title="Guy Chambers">Guy Chambers</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_DiCamillo" title="Kate DiCamillo">Kate DiCamillo</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magician%27s_Elephant_(musical)" title="The Magician's Elephant (musical)">The Magician's Elephant</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Harris" title="Nancy Harris">Nancy Harris</a> and Marc Teitler (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Errors" title="The Comedy of Errors">The Comedy of Errors</a></i> directed by Phillip Breen (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Doran" title="Gregory Doran">Gregory Doran</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Studio_Ghibli" title="Studio Ghibli">Studio Ghibli</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/My_Neighbour_Totoro_(play)" title="My Neighbour Totoro (play)">My Neighbour Totoro</a></i> adapted by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Morton-Smith" title="Tom Morton-Smith">Tom Morton-Smith</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Phelim_McDermott" title="Phelim McDermott">Phelim McDermott</a> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cowbois_(play)" title="Cowbois (play)">Cowbois</a></i> by Charlie Josephine, co-directed by Charlie Josephine and <a href="/wiki/Sean_Holmes_(theatre_director)" title="Sean Holmes (theatre director)">Sean Holmes</a> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Rhode" title="Eleanor Rhode">Eleanor Rhode</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Mathew_Baynton" title="Mathew Baynton">Mathew Baynton</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_actors_past_and_present">Notable actors past and present</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notable actors past and present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_actors_in_Royal_Shakespeare_Company_productions" title="List of actors in Royal Shakespeare Company productions">List of actors in Royal Shakespeare Company productions</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Shakespeare for all Time. 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href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7183-0103-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-7183-0103-X">0-7183-0103-X</a></li> <li>Adler, Steven: <i>Rough Magic: Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company</i>, Southern Illinois University Press (2001) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8093-2377-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8093-2377-7">978-0-8093-2377-7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sally_Beauman" title="Sally Beauman">Beauman, Sally</a>: <i>The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades</i>, Oxford University Press (1982) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-212209-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-212209-6">0-19-212209-6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Hall, Peter</a>: <i>Making an Exhibition of Myself: The Autobiography of Peter Hall</i>, <a href="/wiki/Sinclair-Stevenson" title="Sinclair-Stevenson">Sinclair-Stevenson</a> (1993) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85619-165-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-85619-165-6">1-85619-165-6</a></li> <li>Pringle, Marian: <i>The Theatres of Stratford-upon-Avon 1875–1992: An Architectural History</i>, Stratford upon Avon Society (1994) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9514178-1-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-9514178-1-9">0-9514178-1-9</a></li> <li>Trowbridge, Simon: <i>The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company</i>, Oxford: Editions Albert Creed (2010) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9559830-2-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9559830-2-3">978-0-9559830-2-3</a></li> <li>Trowbridge, Simon: <i>A Royal Shakespeare Company Book</i>, Oxford: Englance Press (2017) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-9997305-3-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-9997305-3-6">978-1-9997305-3-6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Record" title="Theatre Record">Theatre Record</a> and its annual Indexes</li> <li>RSC programme notes (including those for <i>Richard II</i> at the Courtyard, August 2007)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Shakespeare_Company&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rsc.org.uk/">Official website</a></span></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/royal-shakespeare-company">Royal Shakespeare Company at Google Cultural Institute</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra">Antony and Cleopatra</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus" title="Coriolanus">Coriolanus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)" title="Julius Caesar (play)">Julius Caesar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Timon_of_Athens" title="Timon of Athens">Timon of Athens</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titus_Andronicus" title="Titus Andronicus">Titus Andronicus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida" title="Troilus and Cressida">Troilus and Cressida</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_history" title="Shakespearean history">Histories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/King_John_(play)" title="King John (play)">King John</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Edward_III_(play)" title="Edward III (play)">Edward III</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i></li> <li><i>Henry IV</i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1">1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2" title="Henry IV, Part 2">2</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(play)" title="Henry V (play)">Henry V</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_(play)" title="Henry VI (play)">Henry VI</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_1" title="Henry VI, Part 1">1</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_2" title="Henry VI, Part 2">2</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3" title="Henry VI, Part 3">3</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_(play)" title="Henry VIII (play)">Henry VIII</a></i> ✻</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Early_texts_of_Shakespeare%27s_works" title="Early texts of Shakespeare's works">Early editions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespeare_plays_in_quarto" title="List of Shakespeare plays in quarto">Quarto publications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Folio" title="Second Folio">Second Folio</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_problem_play" title="Shakespearean problem play">Problem plays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_late_romances" title="Shakespeare's late romances">Late romances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henriad" title="Henriad">Henriad</a></li> <li>Characters <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_characters_(A%E2%80%93K)" title="List of Shakespearean characters (A–K)">A–K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_characters_(L%E2%80%93Z)" title="List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z)">L–Z</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_character" title="Ghost character">Ghost character</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_Shakespeare%27s_plays" title="Chronology of Shakespeare's plays">Chronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_performance" title="Shakespeare in performance">Performances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_settings" title="List of Shakespearean settings">Settings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_scenes" title="List of Shakespearean scenes">Scenes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Chandos_portrait" title="Chandos portrait"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/75px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/113px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/150px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_sonnets" title="Shakespeare's sonnets">Shakespeare's sonnets</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petrarch%27s_and_Shakespeare%27s_sonnets" title="Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets">comparison to Petrarch</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Lover%27s_Complaint" title="A Lover's Complaint">A Lover's Complaint</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Phoenix_and_the_Turtle" title="The Phoenix and the Turtle">The Phoenix and the Turtle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rape_of_Lucrece" title="The Rape of Lucrece">The Rape of Lucrece</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)" title="Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)">Venus and Adonis</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_apocrypha" title="Shakespeare apocrypha">Apocrypha</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Arden_of_Faversham" title="Arden of Faversham">Arden of Faversham</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Birth_of_Merlin" title="The Birth of Merlin">The Birth of Merlin</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio" title="The History of Cardenio">Cardenio</a></i> ✻†</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Double_Falsehood" title="Double Falsehood">Double Falsehood</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Ironside_(play)" title="Edmund Ironside (play)">Edmund Ironside</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fair_Em" title="Fair Em">Fair Em</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Locrine" title="Locrine">Locrine</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Prodigal" title="The London Prodigal">The London Prodigal</a></i></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Won" title="Love's Labour's Won">Love's Labour's Won</a></i> †</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Devil_of_Edmonton" title="The Merry Devil of Edmonton">The Merry Devil of Edmonton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mucedorus" title="Mucedorus">Mucedorus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Puritan" title="The Puritan">The Puritan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Maiden%27s_Tragedy" title="The Second Maiden's Tragedy">The Second Maiden's Tragedy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sejanus_His_Fall" title="Sejanus His Fall">Sejanus His Fall</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Oldcastle" title="Sir John Oldcastle">Sir John Oldcastle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More_(play)" title="Sir Thomas More (play)">Sir Thomas More</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy" title="The Spanish Tragedy">The Spanish Tragedy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lord_Cromwell" title="Thomas Lord Cromwell">Thomas Lord Cromwell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_of_Woodstock_(play)" title="Thomas of Woodstock (play)">Thomas of Woodstock</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ur-Hamlet" title="Ur-Hamlet">Ur-Hamlet</a></i> †</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vortigern_and_Rowena" title="Vortigern and Rowena">Vortigern and Rowena</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Yorkshire_Tragedy" title="A Yorkshire Tragedy">A Yorkshire Tragedy</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Passionate_Pilgrim" title="The Passionate Pilgrim">The Passionate Pilgrim</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Queen" title="To the Queen">To the Queen</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Life_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Life of William Shakespeare">Life</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William Shakespeare">works</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Birthplace" title="Shakespeare's Birthplace">Birthplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William Shakespeare">Bibliography</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Complete_Works_of_Shakespeare" title="Complete Works of Shakespeare">Complete Works</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_translations_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of translations of works by William Shakespeare">Translations</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_coat_of_arms" title="Shakespeare coat of arms">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_collaborations" title="William Shakespeare's collaborations">Collaborations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_editors" title="Shakespeare's editors">Editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre" title="English Renaissance theatre">English Renaissance theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Globe_Theatre" title="Globe Theatre">Globe Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_handwriting" title="Shakespeare's handwriting">Handwriting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain%27s_Men" title="Lord Chamberlain's Men">Lord Chamberlain's Men</a>/<a href="/wiki/King%27s_Men_(playing_company)" title="King's Men (playing company)">King's Men</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Theatre" title="The Theatre">The Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtain_Theatre" title="Curtain Theatre">Curtain Theatre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_in_the_plays_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Music in the plays of William Shakespeare">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Place" title="New Place">New Place</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portraits_of_Shakespeare" title="Portraits of Shakespeare">Portraits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_views_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Religious views of William Shakespeare">Religious views</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Sexuality of William Shakespeare">Sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare%27s_name" title="Spelling of Shakespeare's name">Spelling of his name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_writing_style" title="Shakespeare's writing style">Style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_will" title="Shakespeare's will">Will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity,_Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon">Grave</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Reputation_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Reputation of William Shakespeare">Legacy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_attribution_studies" title="Shakespeare attribution studies">Attribution studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question" title="Shakespeare authorship question">Authorship question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardolatry" title="Bardolatry">Bardolatry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_festival" title="Shakespeare festival">Festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_garden" title="Shakespeare garden">Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influence_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Influence of William Shakespeare">Influence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorials_to_William_Shakespeare" title="Memorials to William Shakespeare">Memorials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_William_Shakespeare_screen_adaptations" title="List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations">Screen adaptations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Star_Trek" title="Shakespeare and Star Trek">Shakespeare and <i>Star Trek</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_Tolkien" title="Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien">Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_titled_after_Shakespeare" title="List of works titled after Shakespeare">Works titled after Shakespeare</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Institutions" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library" title="Folger Shakespeare Library">Folger Shakespeare Library</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Quarterly" title="Shakespeare Quarterly">Shakespeare Quarterly</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="Royal Shakespeare Theatre">Royal Shakespeare Theatre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Birthplace_Trust" title="Shakespeare Birthplace Trust">Shakespeare Birthplace Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a> (replica)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Institute" title="Shakespeare Institute">Shakespeare Institute</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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href="/wiki/Joan_Shakespeare" title="Joan Shakespeare">Joan Shakespeare</a> (sister)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Shakespeare" title="Edmund Shakespeare">Edmund Shakespeare</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Shakespeare" title="Richard Shakespeare">Richard Shakespeare</a> (grandfather)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hall_(physician)" title="John Hall (physician)">John Hall</a> (son-in-law)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Quiney" title="Thomas Quiney">Thomas Quiney</a> (son-in-law)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li>✻ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_collaborations" title="William Shakespeare's collaborations">Shakespeare and other authors</a></li> <li>† Lost</li></ul> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" 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