{"product_id":"9781780011813","title":"Shakespeare on Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner's visceral RSC production\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJudi Dench on being directed by Franco Zeffirelli as a twenty-three-year-old Juliet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRalph Fiennes on Shakespeare's least sympathetic hero Coriolanus\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRebecca Hall on Rosalind in As You Like It, directed by her father, Sir Peter\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDerek Jacobi on his hilariously poker-backed Malvolio for Michael Grandage\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJude Law on his Hamlet, a palpable hit in the West End and on Broadway\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAdrian Lester on a modern-dress Henry V at the National, during the invasion of Iraq\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIan McKellen on his Macbeth, opposite Judi Dench in Trevor Nunn's RSC production\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelen Mirren on a role she was born for, and has played three times: Cleopatra\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTim Pigott-Smith on Leontes in Peter Hall's Restoration Winter's Tale at the National\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKevin Spacey on his high-tech, modern-dress Richard II\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePatrick Stewart on Prospero in Rupert Goold's arctic Tempest for the RSC\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePenelope Wilton on Isabella in Jonathan Miller's 'chamber' Measure for Measure\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe actors discuss their characters, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing each role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare - and fascinating for audiences of the plays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether, the interviews give one of the most comprehensive pictures yet of these characters in performance, and of the choices that these great actors have made in bringing them thrillingly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach interview is also available as an individual ebook as part of the \u003ci\u003eShakespeare on Stage\u003c\/i\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'These passages of times remembered contribute vividly to the sense of a teemingly creative period when Shakespeare seemed to have been rediscovered.' Trevor Nunn, from his Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'absorbing and original... Curry's actors are often thinking and talking as that other professional performer, Shakespeare himself, might have done' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177612984560,"sku":"9781780011813","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780011813_p0.jpg?v=1763710574","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780011813","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}