Shakespeare in performance works were plundered for these scenes. Among the drolls taken from Shakespeare were "Bottom the Weaver" (Bottom's scenes from "A Midsummer Night's Dream") and "The Grave-makers" (the gravedigger's scene from "Hamlet"). At the Restoration in 1660, Shakespeare's plays were divided between the two newly licensed companies: the King's Company of Thomas Killigrew and the Duke's Men of William Davenant. The licensing system prevailed for two centuries; from 1660 to 1843, only two main companies regularly presented Shakespeare in London. Davenant, who had known early-Stuart actors such as John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, was the main figure establishing some continuity with
Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan (Editor), 2004. The following production history is sourced from the "Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan" website. Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival) is an annual summer Shakespeare theatre festival founded in 1985, which takes place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Under its origin of Nightcap Productions, founder and first Artistic Director Gordon McCall brought a group of theatre artists together to put up the first production - A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the summer of 1985 on an old lawn bowling pitch near the current festival site. During Gordon’s tenure from 1985-1991, the festival saw