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Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2022

Emma Smith
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University of Oxford
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Advertising the company’s 2021 tour of its three-person Romeo and Juliet, The Handlebards cheekily embraced the comical–tragical paradoxes of performing Shakespeare during an ongoing pandemic. Artwork featuring a masked Juliet (Lucy Green) and Romeo (Paul Moss) snogging passionately through two layers of fabric (Figure 18) acted as a neat encapsulation of a theatre returning to business, but not yet to business as usual. It also, to indulge in an over-reading, visualized the sense of being so near yet so far, a gratification muted by the necessary compromises that allowed in-person Shakespeare to take place in a limited capacity. But this photograph is also a reminder of the creative and self-reflexive ways in which companies worked to make Shakespeare happen around the country, complementing the rich vein of born-digital Shakespeare productions that continued throughout the year.

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Shakespeare Survey 75
Othello
, pp. 342 - 356
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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