Players of Shakespeare v1: Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Twelve Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521368179, ISBN10: 0521368170
Paperback, 192 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
This is believed to be the first book of its kind. Twelve distinguished actors were asked to write about the preparation and performance of a Shakespeare role they had played in a production with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
List of illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of productions
1. Introduction
abstracts and brief chronicles Philip Brockbank
2. Shylock in The Merchant of Venice Patrick Stewart
3. Portia in The Merchant of Venice Sinead Cusack
4. Malvolio in Twelfth Night Donald Sinden
5. Orlando in As You Like It John Bowe
6. Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well Geoffrey Hutchings
7. Nurse in Romeo and Juliet Brenda Bruce
8. Polonius in Hamlet Tony Church
9. Hamlet Michael Penington
10. Timon of Athens Richard Pasco
11. Postumus in Cymbeline Roger Rees
12. Hermione in The Winter's Tale Gemma Jones
13. Caliban in The Tempest David Suchet.
'This volume of twelve essays by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company is brilliant testimony to the specific and incomparable commentary that actors can be persuaded to provide.' Peter Holland, Theatre Notebook