Players of Shakespeare 3: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company

by Russell Jackson, Robert Smallwood

Overview

This is the third volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Thirteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played in productions between 1987 and 1991. The plays covered include Hamlet, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and important theatrical rarities such as Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, King John, and the Henry VI plays in the Royal Shakespeare Company's highly successful adaptation retitled The Plantagenets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521477345
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/08/1994
Series:	Players of Shakespeare , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction Robert Smallwood; The Duke in Measure for Measure Roger Allam; Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing Maggie Steed; Portia in The Merchant of Venice Deborah Findlay; Solanio in The Merchant of Venice Gregory Doran; Rosalind (and Celia) in As You Like It Sophie Thompson; King John Nicholas Woodeson; King Henry VI Ralph Fiennes; Queen Margaret in Henry VI and Richard III Penny Downie; Richard of Gloucester in Henry VI and Richard III Anton Lesser; Thersites in Troilus and Cressida Simon Russell Beale; Titus Andronicus Brian Cox; Hamlet Philip Franks; Imogen in Cymbeline Harriet Walter; Production credits.

Editorial Reviews

"This collection of essays by actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company is an excellent revelation of the working of the actor's mind as it moves from the first awareness of Shakespeare's words and ideas through the actor's image-built-upon-image characterization....This excellent series carries on the tradition of toby Cole and Helen K. Chinoy in Actors on Acting, with a more in-depth analysis by each actor; a future Edwin Duerr would find great use for these volumes as he writes his history of the theatre." Norman Lofland, English Language Notes

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