Productions of Measure for Measure:

1908. On April 20 Frank Benson opened the Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Festival with Much Ado About Nothing; the company also performed A Midsummer Night's Dream during this season. A notable event at the Festival was a performance of the William Poel production of Measure for Measure. Annie Horniman's company had come down from Manchester especially for Poel's "authentic" presentation of the play in what was understood then to be the conventions of the Elizabethan theatre (Loney, I, 44).