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

by Philip Brockbank

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521368179
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/28/1988
Series:	Players of Shakespeare , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	746,272
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"...brilliant testimony to the specific and incomparable commentary that actors can be persuaded to provide."—Peter Holland, Theatre Notebook

"Rarely can we participate in the actor's creative process as he or she prepares and performs a specific role, but in this collection we have a concentrated, thoughtful, energetic, and delightful set of essays on the actor's art...the level is outstandingly high."—Library Journal

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