Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2: Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles (Shakespeare On Stage)

'This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeare’s twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from playing him' Nicholas Hytner, from his ForewordTwelve leading actors take us behind the scenes of landmark Shakespearean productions, each recreating in detail their memorable performance in a major role. Roger Allam on his Falstaff in both Henry IV plays at Shakespeare’s GlobeEileen Atkins on Viola in two productions of Twelfth Night seventeen years apartSimon Russell Beale on Cassius in Deborah Warner’s modern-dress Julius CaesarChiwetel Ejiofor on his Donmar Warehouse Othello, directed by Michael GrandageSara Kestelman on Hippolyta and Titania in Peter Brook’s iconic white-box DreamIan McKellen on one of Shakespeare’s most demanding of roles: King LearMichael Pennington on stepping in at the eleventh hour as Timon of AthensAlan Rickman on re-evaluating the melancholic Jaques in As You Like ItFiona Shaw on Shakespeare’s Shrew, Katherine, in