Shakespeare The Director's Cut

Essays on Shakespeare’s  tragedies, comedies and histories by the renown Shakespearian director.

‘ . . .boy did I enjoy the riffs on the plays. These are not production nor performance notes  . . . but a blizzard of ideas, more than could ever be used in any lifetime’s stagings. My favourites are  . . . the realisation in The Tempest that Miranda is a racist, a spoilt bitch behaving badly towards the locals on a Caribbean holiday beach; and his spot-on description of the Antonio-Portia crowd in The Merchant of Venice as “those bastards on the Rialto” – characters braying about their junk-bond sales in some Venetian wine bar.’ The Guardian