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| 1955 |
Film of Richard III,
directed by Laurence Olivier who also plays the title-role. Olivier’s
text includes some of the changes made by Colley Cibber and David
Garrick
in the 18th century.
Laurence Olivier also plays the title-role in Titus Andronicus,
directed by Peter Brook at the Stratford Memorial Theatre. This
abstract and highly stylized production is acclaimed by critics. |
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| 1959 |
Paul Robeson
appears again in the title-role of Othello in
a production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon.
Paul Robeson as Shakespeare's Othello,
 Listen Othello,
British Library Sound Archive, 1959 |
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| 1960 |
| Royal Shakespeare
Company formed by Peter Hall. The Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre is renamed the Royal Shakespeare
Theatre and provides a base for the new company. |
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| 1963 |
| The newly established
National Theatre’s opening production at
the Old Vic is Hamlet. The director is Laurence
Olivier and the title-role is played by Peter
O’Toole. |
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| 1963-64 |
| Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI plays are cut and
adapted into 2 plays. They are given with Richard II, Henry
IV, Parts
1 and 2, Henry V, and Richard III as The Wars
of the Roses. The 7-play
cycle is produced for the Royal Shakespeare Company by Peter Hall and
John Barton. |
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| 1964 |
| Quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth celebrated
not only in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, but
world-wide. |
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| 1976 |
The new National Theatre on London’s South
Bank opens with Hamlet. The production is directed by Peter Hall,
with Albert Finney in the title-role.
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| 1989 |
The foundations of the Rose Theatre are discovered
on Bankside.
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| 1996 |
Two Gentleman of Verona is the first of Shakespeare’s
plays to be given in a reconstruction of the Globe on Bankside. The
new playhouse is very close to Shakespeare’s Globe.
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