Harriet Walter

Gebundenes Buch

She Speaks!

What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said

Beschreibung

An audacious, inventive collection of thirty speeches that lovingly reimagine Shakespeare's best-known heroines and villains and make them more accessible to a wider, contemporary audience--the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and readers eager for feminist retellings of classic works.

Autor

Dame Harriet May Walter DBE is one of Britain's most esteemed Shakespearean actors, and the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award. Walter is also well-known for her appearances in "Sense and Sensibility," "Atonement," "Downton Abbey," "The Crown," "Succession," "Killing Eve," "Ted Lasso," among many others. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Union Square & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 131mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781454959267
• ISBN-10: 1454959266
• Artikelnr.: 70349825

Rezensionen

She Speaks! - bold and original - is many rewarding books in one. In these pages one of the great actors of our age asks: 'What were Ophelia, Rosalind, Cleopatra and Shakespeare's other women characters really thinking?' Drawing on her own rich performance history, Harriet Walter gives them voice in Shakespearean pentameter verse, and what they have to say is both witty and profound. I was dazzled many years ago when I saw her play Ophelia at the Royal Court, and continue to be dazzled by her brilliance and hard-won insights into the plays. It's a book that anyone who cares about Shakespeare will want to own, and share James Shapiro, author of 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE