The Folger Shakespeare Library

“Nur Eine Nacht”: Macbeth in German and English

Bogaev, Barbara, narrator. “The Actor and the Assassin: Edwin and John Wilkes Booth.” Podcast audio, February 5, 2019. https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/edwin-john-wilkes-booth

Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.): Box Office Receipts. November 3, 1868. MS Thr 520, Box 7. Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library.

Griffin, G.W.  Studies in Literature. Baltimore: Henry C. Turnbull, Jr., 1870.

The daily dispatch. (Richmond [Va.]), 11 Nov. 1868. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024738/1868-11-11/ed-1/seq-3/>

New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]), 30 Nov. 1904. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1904-11-30/ed-1/seq-16/>

Vaughan, Alden T. and Virginia Mason Vaughan. Shakespeare in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Young, William C. “Fanny Janauschek” in Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage. New York and London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1975, pp. 568-571.

Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and the peak of a partnership

Booth, Michael. Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

Comyns–Carr, Alice, and Eve Adam, ed. Mrs. J. Comyns Carr’s Reminiscences. London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1926.

Cumming, Valerie. “Macbeth at the Lyceum 1888: A late nineteenth-century approach to theatre costume,” Costume 12 (1978): 53-63.

Hughes, Alan. Henry Irving, Shakespearean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

“Interview with Charles Cattermole.” Pall Mall Gazette. December 31st, 1888: 5. Percy Fitzgerald Album, Volume V: 317, Garrick Club, London.

Manvell, Roger. Ellen Terry: A Biography. London: Heinemann, 1968.

Meisel, Martin. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton University Press: Princeton. 1984.

“The Real Macbeth,” Unidentified periodical, ca. December 1888, Press Cutting, mounted in Percy Fitzgerald Albums, Volume V: 311, Garrick Collection, London.

Richards, Jeffrey. Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World. London: Hambledon and London, 2005.

Robertson, Walford Graham. Time Was: The Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1931.

Scott, Clement. From the Bells to King Arthur. London: John Macqueen, 1896.

St John, Christopher. Introduction to Terry, Ellen, Four Lectures on Shakespeare. London, Martin Hopkinson, 1932.

Taylor, George. Players and Performances in the Victorian Theatre. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.

Terry, Ellen. The Story of My Life. London: Hutchinson, 1908.

Terry. Ellen. (Edited and with an introduction by Christopher St John). Four Lectures on Shakespeare. London: Martin Hopkinson Ltd, 1932.

Allan Wilkie and Australia’s first touring Shakespeare company

“ALLAN WILKIE and Miss Hunter-WATTS in Macbeth.” The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), Sep 8, 1920. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4585165.

“ALLAN WILKIE SEASON. ‘Macbeth.’ Enthusiastic Farewell.” The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 – 1954), Feb 8, 1927. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29662472.

Golder, John. “A cultural missionary on tour: Allan Wilkie’s Shakespearean Company, 1920-30.” In O brave new world: Two centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian stage, edited by John Golder and Richard Madelaine. Sydney: Currency Press, 2001.

Marsh, Ngaio. Black Beech and Honeydew. London: Collins, 1966.

“THE PLAYHOUSE: Mr. Allan Wilkie New Productions Unique Stage Settings.” The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 – 1954), Dec 22, 1927. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/24195449.

Rickard, John. “Wilkie, Allan (1878-1970).” Australian Dictionary of National Biography, 1990. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilkie-allan-9096/text16039.

“Theatres, &c.” The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946), Aug 25, 1917. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/140193794.

Warrington, Lisa J.V. “Allan Wilkie in Australia: the work of a Shakespearean actor-manager.” PhD diss., University of Tazmania, 2007.

A Haitian-infused Macbeth for Depression-era audiences

France, Richard, ed. Orson Welles on Shakespeare: the W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts. New York, Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Rippy, Marguerite. “Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles’s ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth,in Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, eds. Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 83-90.

Sawyer, Robert. “’All’s Well that Ends Welles’: Orson Welles and the ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth.Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance, 13 (28), 2016, pp. 87-103.

Simmons, Lisa. N. “Before Welles: a 1935 Boston Production,” in Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, eds. Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp. 79-82.

Vaughan, Alden T. and Virginia Mason Vaughan. Shakespeare in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Australia’s contemporary Shakespeare stars

Bell, John. The Time of My Life. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2003.

Bramall, Patrick, Wayne Harrison, Andy Griffiths, and John Bell. “Bell Shakespeare Transforms Macbeth for Kids.” Interview by Jane Cowan. ABC Television, October 1, 2008. Video. https://web.archive.org/web/20210228214545/https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/bell-shakespeare-transforms-macbeth-for-kids/2677114

Kiernander, Adrian. “John Bell and a post-colonial Australian Shakespeare, 1963-2000.” In O brave new world: Two centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian stage, edited by John Golder and Richard Madelaine. Sydney: Currency Press, 2001.

Penkethman, Simone. “Review: ‘Macbeth’ in sex, dirt and death.” City News, May 20, 2012. https://citynews.com.au/2012/review-macbeth-in-sex-dirt-and-death/.