Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction Robert Smallwood; Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love's Labour's Lost Christopher Luscombe; Touchstone in As You Like It David Tennant; Petruccio in The Taming of the Shrew Michael Siberry; Autolycus in The Winter's Tale Richard McCabe; Richard III David Troughton; Queen Elizabeth in Richard III Susan Brown; Henry VIII Paul Jesson; Queen Katherine in Henry VIII Jane Lapotaire; Menenius in Coriolanus Philip Voss; Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet Julian Glover; Brutus in Julius Caesar John Nettles; Macbeth Derek Jacobi; Production credits.

Promotional Information

This 1998 book is the fourth volume of essays by twelve actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Reviews

' ... 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