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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.
1912 Spring Tour (red lines on
map) included the following towns: Bedford, Norwich,
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
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.
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.
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.
Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1910
(This theatre was destroyed by fire in 1926.)
Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, in 2010
Located on South King Street in Dublin, the Gaiety Theatre opened in 1871.
Rathbone performed in Dublin in 1913.
Map of London
London Theatre District
Repton School and the London theatres
Rathbone's home in the 1920s
New York City Theatres
Rathbone's homes and haunts, 1935-1946
Rathbone's later years in New York City, 1946-1967