Players of Shakespeare 1

'This volume of twelve essays by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company is brilliant testimony to the specific and incomparable commentary that actors can be persuaded to provide.' Peter Holland, Theatre Notebook

• 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.