Publisher's Synopsis
Essay from the year 1997 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,4 (A), University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Seminar & Excusion to RSC, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: A short insight into the play as well as a commentary / analysis of an RSC production of the play in Stratford in 1997 Ever since its first performance (probably soon after it was written in 1598) it has been extremely popular. It was put on stage by Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, later called King's Men under James I, and was declared on the title page of the 1600 quarto print as a play that "hath been sundry times publicly performed"2. It was also performed among other thirteen plays at Whitehall for the Princess Elizabeth and the Elector of the Palatinate during 1612-132. In the past ninety years of our century there have been many different approaches to the play like the Elizabethan simplicity in London 1904, a medieval Italian setting in 1949 or the very modern style of 1994. Kenneth Branaghs film in 1993 was a huge success and made the comedy known to the cinema and TV audience.
