Players of Shakespeare 1
Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Twelve Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company

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.

Philip Brockbank (Edited by)

9780521368179, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 July 1988

192 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.29 kg

'At their best they provide a richness of experience obtainable in no other way … this is a book I am eager to recommend.' David Bevington, Yearbook of English Studies

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.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS]