 Over time, Benson's companies performed all but three of Shakespeare's plays (neglecting "All's Well That Ends Well", "Titus Andronicus" and its "bloody villainy," and "Troilus and Cressida").From 1886 to 1916 (with a few gaps) he managed the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean Festival.His romantic and intellectual powers as an actor, combined with his athletic and picturesque bearing and fine elocution, were conspicuously shown in his own impersonations, most remarkable among which were his Hamlet (in 1900 he produced this play without cuts in London), his "Coriolanus", his "Richard II", his "Lear" and his Petruchio.