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The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Lion Theatre in Theatre Row.

Publisher Shakespeare Bulletin
Publication Shakespeare Bulletin
Subject Arts, visual and performing
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0748-2558
Issues per Year 4
Volume 26
Issue 1
Published 2008-03-22

Role Type Name
Reviewee n/a Walter Brandes
Reviewee n/a Brad Fryman
Reviewee n/a Oberon Theatre Ensemble
Author n/a Stephanie Pietros
Reviewee n/a Zak Risinger
Reviewee n/a Kate Ross
Reviewee n/a William Shakespeare
Reviewee n/a Laura Siner
Reviewee n/a M. Eden Teagle
Reviewee n/a Stewart Walker
Reviewee n/a Mickey Zetts

The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Lion Theatre in Theatre Row, March 8-29, 2007.

Broadly speaking, there are two ways in which one can produce a performance according to some kind of historical parameters. In the first, every attempt is made to reproduce every detail--from costuming to staging to acting--as nearly as possible to the original based on the surviving evidence. Through the employment of all-male companies, the other productions reviewed here possessed, to some extent at least, a desire for such a historically "accurate" production. Ultimately, however, the goal...

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