Directions by Indirections: John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company  28529

  • Foreword   Ian McKellen
  • “A Prologue Armed”
  1. Ambition’s Ladder: From Cambridge to Stratford
  2. “Fears of Broils and Arms”: The Wars of the Roses (1963) and The Henriad (1964)
  3. Wars and Lechery: Troilus and Cressida (1960, 1968, 1976), Coriolanus (1967), and Julius Caesar (1968)
  4. “The Owl and the Cuckoo”: Love’s Labour’s Lost (1965, 1978), Twelfth Night (1969), All’s Well That Ends Well (1967), Measure for Measure (1970), and The Merchant of Venice (1979, 1981)
  5. “He Who Plays the King”: Richard II (1973-74) and King John (1974-75)
  6. “What Country, Friend, Is This?”: Othello (1971) and Much Ado About Nothing (1976)
  7. “Improbable Fictions”: The Tempest (1970), Cymbeline (1975), The Winter’s Tale (1976), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1977), and Two Gentlemen of Verona / Titus Andronicus (1981)
  8. The Marriage of True Minds: Hamlet (1980)
  9. Beyond Shakespeare: Doctor Faustus (1974), Perkin Warbeck (1975), The Pillars of the Community (1977), The Way of the World (1978), The School for Scandal (1983), and La Ronde (1982)
  10. “To Sing a Song That Old Was Sung”: The Greeks (1980)
  11. “His Hour Upon the Stage”: Barton Anatomized
  • Appendices:
    • “Profile”, The Varsity (Cambridge), May 12, 1951
    • Programs for the BBC Broadcasts of The First Stage
    • Barton’s Revision of the “Gage Scene” in Richard II
    • Barton’s Prologue to King John
    • Barton’s Interpolation of Battle Scene for Cymbeline
    • A Chronology of John Barton’s Work with the RSC, 1960-1984
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