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Alexandra E. LaGrand
is an MLitt student at Mary Baldwin University studying Shakespeare and Performance. Her research interests include Shakespearean theatre history and promptbook studies, while her current work explores Victorian actor-manager William Charles Macready and his relationship with King Lear.
The curious and complicated history of the 16th-century play “The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine” prompts interesting conversations about the Shakespeare canon and its apocrypha.
William Charles Macready and the restoration of William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’
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Imagine a King Lear that cut the character of the Fool, created a romance between Edgar and Cordelia, and featured a happy ending in which Lear and Cordelia both live. That was the most popular version of Shakespeare’s play for…
A history of Theatre Royal Haymarket and its struggle to break through London's restrictions on Shakespeare
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William Capon. Theatre Royal Haymarket. August 1803. Folger Shakespeare Library. During a time when performing Shakespeare in London was a legal right belonging only to certain theaters, the Haymarket theater’s rise to greatness is directly linked to its struggle to…
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