Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Robert Smallwood -- The duke in Measure for Measure / Roger Allam -- Beatrice in Much ado about nothing / Maggie Steed -- Portia in The merchant of Venice / Deborah Findlay -- Solanio in The merchant of Venice / Gregory Doran -- Rosalind (and Celia) in As you like it / Sophie Thompson -- King John / Nicholas Woodeson -- King Henry VI / Ralph Fiennes -- Queen Margaret in Henry VI and Richard III / Penny Downie -- Richard of Gloucester in Henry VI and Richard III / Anton Lesser -- Thersites in Troilus and Cressida / Simon Russell Beale -- Titus Andronicus / Brian Cox -- Hamlet / Philip Franks -- Imogen in Cymbeline / Harriet Walter.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Stage history -- The fifties : Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Paul Scofield, Michael Redgrave -- The sixties : Jeremy Brett, Peter O'Toole, David Warner, Nicol Williamson -- The seventies : Alan Howard, Ian McKellen, Albert Finney, Ben Kingsley, Derek Jacobi, Frances de la Tour -- The eighties : Jonathan Pryce, Michael Pennington, Anton Lesser, Roger Rees, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Daniel Day-Lewis -- The nineties : Kenneth Branagh, Alan Cumming, Stephen Dillane, Ralph Fiennes, Alex Jennings, Paul Rhys -- The noughties : Mark Rylance, Adrian Lester, Samuel West, Michael Maloney, Ben Whishaw, Jamie Ballard, David Tennant, Jude Law -- The teens : Rory Kinnear, Michael Sheen, Jonathan Slinger, Maxine Peake, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paapa Essiedu, Andrew Scott, Simon Russell Beale -- Hamlet observed : the National Theatre at work -- Hamlets at Elsinore.…”