Editing Glenda Jackson (section)

===1980–1991: Established actor ===
For her 1980 appearance on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Jackson told the producers she would perform any material they liked. In her appearance, she has a delusion that she is a pirate captain who takes over the Muppet Theatre as her ship.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilkie |first=Matt |date=6 November 2020 |title=The Muppet Show: 40 Years Later – Glenda Jackson |url=https://toughpigs.com/tms40-glenda-jackson/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=ToughPigs |language=en-US}}</ref> Fifteen years after the New York engagement of ''[[Marat/Sade]]'', Jackson returned to Broadway in [[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]]'s ''Rose'' (1981) opposite [[Jessica Tandy]]; both actresses received Tony nominations for their roles.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 January 2009 |title=Tony Awards 1981 {{!}} WestendTheatre.com |url=https://www.westendtheatre.com/11957/news/awards/tony-awards-1981/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=westendtheatre.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>  In September 1983, The Glenda Jackson Theatre in Birkenhead was named in her honour. The theatre was attached to [[Wirral Metropolitan College]], but demolished in 2005 following the establishment of a purpose-built site for students.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 February 2005 |title=I'm glad it's going |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/im-glad-its-going-3535792 |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=[[Liverpool Echo]] |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Amerikaanse tv-show Laat Polen Polen zijn op de televisie. Glenda Jackson tijd, Bestanddeelnr 931-9473.jpg|thumb|right|Jackson on ''[[Let Poland be Poland (TV)|Let Poland be Poland]]'' (1982)]]
In 1985, she played Nina Leeds in a revival of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Strange Interlude]]'' at the [[Nederlander Theatre]] in a production which had originated in London the previous year and ran for eight weeks.<ref name="Chambers" /> John Beaufort for ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' wrote: "Bravura is the inevitable word for Miss Jackson's display of feminine wiles and brilliant technique."<ref>Beaufort, John. [http://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0226/lude.html "Lively revival of O'Neill's stormy ''Strange Interlude''"], ''The Christian Science Monitor'', 26 February 1985.</ref> [[Frank Rich]] in ''The New York Times'' thought Jackson, "with her helmet of hair and gashed features", when Leeds is a young woman, "looks like a cubist portrait of [[Louise Brooks]]", and later when the character has aged several decades, is "mesmerizing as a [[Zelda Fitzgerald]]esque neurotic, a rotting and spiteful middle-aged matron and, finally, a spent, [[sphinx]]-like widow happily embracing extinction."<ref>Rich, Frank (22 February 1985). [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/22/arts/theater-a-fresh-look-for-o-neill-s-interlude.html "Theater: A Fresh Look for O'Neill's ''Interlude''"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 18 April 2020.</ref> [[Herbert Wise]] directed the drama on television where it was first broadcast in the US as part of PBS's ''[[American Playhouse]]'' in 1988.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/18/arts/tv-reviews-glenda-jackson-in-strange-interlude.html|title=TV Reviews; Glenda Jackson in 'Strange Interlude'|work=The New York Times|date=18 January 1988|access-date=18 April 2020|url-access=registration}}</ref>

In November 1984, Jackson appeared in the title role of [[Robert David MacDonald]]'s English translation of [[Jean Racine|Racine]]'s ''[[Phèdre]]'', titled ''Phedra'', at [[The Old Vic]]. The play was designed and directed by [[Philip Prowse]], and [[Robert Eddison]] played [[Theramenes]].<ref>{{cite book|title =Phedra [theatre programme] |date =1984|publisher =Proscenium, for The Old Vic }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=London The Old Vic Theatre – Phedra – 1984 | website= Theatre Memorabilia .co.uk | url=https://www.theatrememorabilia.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2642 | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''<nowiki/>'s John Barber wrote of her performance, "Wonderfully impressive ... The actress finds a voice as jagged and hoarse as her torment". [[Benedict Nightingale]] in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' was intrigued that Jackson did not go in for nobility, but played Racine's feverish queen as if to say that "being skewered in the guts by 
[[Cupid]] is an ugly, bitter, humiliating business".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-05-ca-11662-story.html|title=Glenda Jackson Shows Firepower In 'Phedre'|last= Sullivan| first=Dan| date=5 January 1985|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=26 June 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> The costume which Prowse designed for Jackson's performance is in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]],<ref>{{cite web  | title=Theatre Costume, 1984, [by] Prowse, Philip | website=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]] | year=1984 | url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O102297/theatre-costume-prowse-philip/ | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> and iconic photographs of Jackson in the role can be found online.<ref>{{cite web | title=MW_SC008 : Glenda Jackson | website=Iconic Images | date=6 September 2019 | url=https://iconicimages.net/photo/mw-sc008-glenda-jackson/ | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Photostage.co.uk | website=Photostage Ltd | date=21 February 2019 | url=https://www.photostage.co.uk/stock-photo-phedra-by-jean-racine-english-stage-version-by-robert-david-macdonald-photostage-image00098792.html | access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref>

In 1989, Jackson appeared in Ken Russell's ''[[The Rainbow (1989 film)|The Rainbow]]'', playing Anna Brangwen, mother of Gudrun, the part for which she had won her first Academy Award twenty years earlier. The same year, she played Martha in a Los Angeles production of [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' at the Doolittle Theatre (now the [[Ricardo Montalbán Theatre]]). Directed by the playwright himself, this staging featured [[John Lithgow]] as George. [[Dan Sullivan (critic)|Dan Sullivan]] in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote that Jackson and Lithgow performed "with the assurance of dedicated character assassins, not your hire-and-salary types" with the actors being able to display their character's capacity for antipathy.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sullivan|first=Dan|date=6 October 1989|title=STAGE REVIEW : A Lower-Key George and Martha|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-06-ca-799-story.html|access-date=2 January 2024|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> Albee was disappointed with this production, pointing to Jackson, who he thought "had retreated back to the thing she can do very well, that ice cold performance. I don't know whether she got scared, but in rehearsal she was being Martha, and the closer we got to opening the less Martha she was!"<ref>Stephen J. Bottoms ''Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 67–68.</ref> She performed the lead role in [[Howard Barker]]'s ''[[Scenes from an Execution]]'' as Galactia, a sixteenth-century female [[Venice|Venetian]] artist, at the [[Almeida Theatre]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite news|first=Matt|last=Wolf|date=11 March 1990|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/11/theater/theater-a-new-london-theater-team-is-attracting-stars.html|title=Theater; A New London Theater Team Is Attracting Stars|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 April 2020|url-access=registration}}</ref> It was an adaptation of Barker's 1984 radio play in which Jackson had played the same role.<ref>Milling, Jane. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kanLd67izZUC&pg=RA2-PT30 ''Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations''], A & C Black, 2012, p. 30.</ref>