In the Shady Wood
Michael Neill: Staging the Forest, 22 March 2018
The Shakespearean Forest
by Anne Barton.
Cambridge, 185 pp., £75, August 2017,978 0 521 57344 3 Show More
by Anne Barton.
Cambridge, 185 pp., £75, August 2017,
“... audience’s sense of a forested landscape. Philip Henslowe’s list of stage properties for the Rose Theatre included a ‘bay tree’, ‘Tantalus’ tree’, and a ‘tree of golden apples’. In plays such as Lyly’s Galatea, Barton writes, ‘an entire woodland region’ seems to have been suggested by a single tree – the ‘fair oak’ situated at ... ”