Performing Hamlet: Actors in the modern age
Bloomsbury $47.99 pb, 208 pp, 9781350030763
Theatre
Performing Hamlet: Actors in the modern age by Jonathan Croall
by Brian McFarlane •
‘It is arguably the most famous play on the planet’, writes Jonathan Croall in his introduction to this absorbing study of how the play and its eponym have gripped the imagination across the ages – and, as far as this book is concerned, particularly across the last seventy years. Whether for actor or director, Hamlet has always been ‘a supreme challenge’, making huge demands on those bringing it to theatrical life.
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