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Players of Shakespeare 5

" This is the fifth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre on their interpretations of major Shakespearian roles. The twelve essays discuss fourteen roles in twelve different productions between 1999 and 2002. "--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2003
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2003
History
x, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521811316, 0521811317
52288798
Introduction / Robert Smallwood
Prospero in The Tempest / Philip Voss
Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors / Ian Hughes
Puck (and Philostrate) in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Aidan McArdle
Viola and Olivia in Twelfth Night / Zoe Waites and Matilda Ziegler
Hermione in The Winter's Tale / Alexandra Gilbreath
Leontes in The Winter's Tale, and Macbeth / Antony Sher
Romeo in Romeo and Juliet / David Tennant
Timon of Athens / Michael Pennington
Hamlet / Simon Russell Beale
King Lear / Nigel Hawthorne
Iago in Othello / Richard McCabe
Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra / Frances de la Tour