(Mis)advising Shakespeare's Players

Department of Theatre, Film and Television

Theatre Inaugural Lectures - Speaking the Speech: Actors, Scripts, Performances

Professor Michael Cordner

Shakespeare's scripts make sever, and ever changing, demands upon their players. Yet contemporary Shakespearean scholarship pays little attention to his persistent experiments with verse as a medium for drama, and the challenges those experiments pose to his performers. In his lecture Michael Cordner explores the advice offered by a variety of experts to contemporary actors as they prepare to rehearse a role in one of his plays.

Plus Professor Mary Luckhurst "Staging Biography: Actors on Real Lives"

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