Players of Shakespeare 3

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

Robert Smallwood editor Russell Jackson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th Sep '94

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Players of Shakespeare 3 cover

This is the third volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Thirteen actors describe the Shakespearian roles they played in productions between 1987 and 1991. The contributors are Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale, Brian Cox, Gregory Doran, Penny Downie, Ralph Fiennes, Deborah Findlay, Philip Franks, Anton Lesser, Maggie Steed, Sophie Thompson, Harriet Walter and Nicholas Woodeson. 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. A brief biographical note is provided for each of the contributors.

'... one of the best sources of practical Shakespearean criticism this century.' The Observer

ISBN: 9780521477345

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 17mm

Weight: 390g

240 pages