More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

There are a number of performing arts groups at Columbia dedicated to producing student theater, including the Columbia Players, King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe ( KCST ), Columbia Musical Theater Society ( CMTS ), NOMADS ( New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students ), LateNite Theatre, Columbia University Performing Arts League ( CUPAL ), Black Theatre Ensemble ( BTE ), sketch comedy group Chowdah, and improvisational troupes Alfred and Fruit Paunch.

Booth played Hamlet for 100 nights in the 1864 / 5 season at The Winter Garden Theatre, inaugurating the era of long-run Shakespeare in America.

Sam Waterston later played the role himself at the Delacorte for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the show transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1975 ( Stephen Lang played Bernardo and other roles ).

David Warner played the role with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1965.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

Most notable of the professional companies are Nashville Children's Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, the Dance Theatre of Tennessee and the Tennessee Women's Theater Project.

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

* King Lear ( 2007 ), incidental music for a Public Theatre production of the Shakespeare tragedy, composed with orchestrator Michael Starobin.

* A nine-month run in 1976 had a new translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett for the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, with Raúl Juliá as Macheath, Blair Brown as Lucy, and Ellen Greene as Jenny.

In 2011 the Roundabout Theatre Company produced a Broadway revival based on the 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival production featuring Brian Bedford as director and as Lady Bracknell.

* March 6 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.

Cymbeline was also performed in Cambridge in October 2007 in a production directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, who sought to re-capture the essence of the play as a story narrative, and in November 2007 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

In early 2011, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, DC, performed the play.

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

He directed John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre, and in the same period he directed Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A tradition, impossible to verify, holds that Henry V was the first play performed at the new Globe Theatre in the spring of 1599 — the Globe would have been the " wooden O " mentioned in the Prologue — but Shapiro argues that the Chamberlain's Men were still at The Curtain when the work was first performed, and that Shakespeare himself probably acted the Chorus.

* 1965 Aldwych Theatre, Ian Holm as Henry ( Royal Shakespeare Company )

* 1976 Aldwych Theatre, Alan Howard as Henry ( Royal Shakespeare Company )

* 1985 Barbican Theatre, Kenneth Branagh as Henry ( Royal Shakespeare Company )

Off Broadway, the Riverside Shakespeare Company mounted an uncut first folio Hamlet in 1978 at Columbia University, with a playing time of under three hours.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

* Hamlet, The Royal Shakespeare Company 2010 Complete video on PBS. org ( not available outside the US ).

One of the most notable 20th-century productions is that of Trevor Nunn for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976.

In April and May 2010 the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Mudlark Production Company presented a version of the play, entitled Such Tweet Sorrow, as an improvised, real-time series of tweets on Twitter.

* Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City

The work received its initial readings from the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2006, and was presented in workshop form in the inaugural season of the Fordham University Lincoln Center Alumni Company in 2008.

The next major Royal Shakespeare Company production, in 1962, went in the opposite direction.

He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Finney is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Leeds Shakespeare Festival, performed by the British Shakespeare Company, took place annually in the cloisters from 1995 until 2009.

* John Kane, with The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1970

In 2002, an article in the Washington Post said: " Plenty of people have had fun with the famous notion that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite amount of time could eventually write the works of Shakespeare.

* Puck by Brenda Putnam, marble, 1932, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D. C.

In 1984 the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City produced a modern dress Julius Caesar set in contemporary Washington, called simply CAESAR !, starring Harold Scott as Brutus, Herman Petras as Caesar, Marya Lowry as Portia, Robert Walsh as Antony, and Michael Cook as Cassius, directed by W. Stuart McDowell at The Shakespeare Center.

) Titus Andronicus ( Folger Shakespeare Library ; Washington: Simon & Schuster, 2005 )

) The Taming of the Shrew ( Folger Shakespeare Library ; Washington: Simon & Schuster, 2004 )

Okrand currently serves as one of the directors for Live Captioning at the National Captioning Institute and as President of the board of directors of the Washington Shakespeare Company in Arlington, Virginia.

Washington was last seen onstage in the summer of 1990 in the title role of the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Richard III and in 2005, after a 15-year hiatus, he appeared onstage again in another Shakespeare play as Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway.

He also appeared in productions at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D. C.

) Henry VI, Part 1 ( Folger Shakespeare Library ; Washington: Simon & Schuster, 2008 )

) Henry VI, Part 2 ( Folger Shakespeare Library ; Washington: Simon & Schuster, 2008 )

) Henry VI, Part 3 ( Folger Shakespeare Library ; Washington: Simon & Schuster, 2008 )

She appeared in A Feminine Ending at Playwrights Horizons, and in the Shakespeare Theater Company's performance of " All's Well That Ends Well " in Washington, D. C.

In the arts it has helped establish or support the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut ; Arena Stage in Washington, D. C .; Karamu House in Cleveland, Ohio ; and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.

Following Lear he starred in the title role of Cyrano at The Shakespeare Theatre, in Washington, D. C., almost every performance of which ended with a standing ovation, and for which Geraint won the prestigious " Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Play ".

In 2006 Geraint returned to The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D. C. to perform Don Armado in Michael Kahn's 60's version of Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost.

Early in 2007 Geraint headlined as Richard III by Shakespeare at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D. C.

The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C., in the United States.

Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C ..

The Dering MS. is part of the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C.

A donation from Henry C. Folger, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C. paved the way for the construction of BBG's original Shakespeare Garden in 1925.