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Map of England
This map of England shows the locations of Repton, Rathbone's home as a schoolboy at Repton School; Pangbourne, Rathbone's home in the summer of 1924; and Penn, Rathbone's home circa 1937. The map also shows the tours of the country that Frank Benson's New Shakespeare Company made in 1912, 1914, and 1915. The 1912 Spring Tour (red lines on map) included the following towns: Bedford, Norwich, Ipswich, Tunbridge Wells, Canterbury, Folkestone, Hastings, Eastbourne, Worthing, Bournemouth, and Stratford-upon-Avon. Plays performed in the tour were: The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Hamlet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, Othello, and King Lear. In 1913 Frank Benson's New Shakespeare Company traveled to Dublin, Ireland, and performed the following plays at the Gaiety Theatre: The Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Taming of the Shrew (by William Shakespeare); Queen Tara (by Darrell Figgus); and Comus (by John Milton). The 1914 Autumn Tour (yellow/orange lines on map) included the following towns: Malvern, Bournemouth, London, Reading, Torquay, Cheltenham, Leicester, Derby, and Liverpool. Plays performed in the tour were: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Julius Caesar. The 1915 Spring Tour (dark blue lines on map) included the following towns in England, Wales, and Scotland: Edinburgh, Ayr, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford, Blackburn, Stratford upon Avon, Swansea, Cardiff, Norwich, Ipswich, Bedford, Luton, and Bath. Plays performed in the tour were: Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Henry V. The
1915 Autumn Tour (purple lines
on map) included the following towns: Croydon, Ramsgate, Bournemouth, Torquay,
Exeter, and Bristol. Plays performed in the tour were: The Taming of
the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II,
Macbeth, Hamlet, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, Richard III, As You Like
It, Twelfth Night, and
Romeo and Juliet.
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