This is the fourth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Twelve actors including Sir Derek Jacobi, Jane Lapotaire and Julian Glover describe the Shakespearian roles they played in productions between 1992 and 1997. The plays covered include The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. The essays divide equally among comedies, histories, and tragedies, with emphasis among the comedies on those notoriously difficult "clown" roles. A brief biographical note is provided for each of the contributors.
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' ... excellent reading ... The fluency and wit with which all of these actors discuss the texts they perform puts us professional academics to shame. The book is thoroughly to be recommended.' Times Literary Supplement
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This is the fourth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Twelve actors describe the Shakespearian roles they played in productions between 1992 and 1997. The plays covered include The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. The essays divide equally among comedies, histories, and tragedies, with emphasis among the comedies on those notoriously difficult 'clown' roles. A brief biographical note is provided for each of the contributors.
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'Do I have to play it in a flak jacket?' was, Jane Lapotaire tells us at the beginning of the essay she contributes to this volume, the first thing she asked when her director offered her part of Queen Katherine in Henry VIII. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Friar Lawrence, The Merchant of Venice, David Troughton, Lady Macbeth, David Thacker, Love's Labour's Lost, Adrian Noble, Steven Pimlott, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Taming of the Shrew, Young Shepherd, Jane Lapotaire, Lady Anne, Mark Antony, Launcelot Gobbo, Michael Siberry, Paul Jesson, Philip Voss, The Winter's Tale, Act Five, Anne Bullen, Barbican Theatre, David Tennant, Scene Three, Anne Boleyn New!
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'Do I have to play it in a flak jacket?' was, Jane Lapotaire tells us at the beginning of the essay she contributes to this volume, the first thing she asked when her director offered her part of Queen Katherine in Henry VIII. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Friar Lawrence, The Merchant of Venice, David Troughton, Lady Macbeth, David Thacker, Love's Labour's Lost, Adrian Noble, Steven Pimlott, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Taming of the Shrew, Young Shepherd, Jane Lapotaire, Lady Anne, Mark Antony, Launcelot Gobbo, Michael Siberry, Paul Jesson, Philip Voss, The Winter's Tale, Act Five, Anne Bullen, Barbican Theatre, David Tennant, Scene Three, Anne Boleyn New!
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- The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 10 pages
- The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare on 9 pages
- The Merchant of Venice (Saddleback Classics) by Emily Hutchinson on 9 pages
- The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 8 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
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- Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays by Laurie Maguire on 6 pages
- The Merchant of Venice (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage (Accents on Shakespeare) by Sarah Werner in Back Matter
- Shakespeare's Histories: A Guide to Criticism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism) by Emma Smith on page 252
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Stanley Wells in Back Matter
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