📗 Libro en inglés SHE SPEAKS!

It is STUNNING and I simply sat and read it right through and shall start again at once I had no idea that she is such a sensationally fine poet Astonishing JOANNA LUMLEY Harriet Walter unpicks and re centres the inner life and journey of these women as only one of our most talented and celebrated classical actors could A must read MAXINE PEAKE Bold and original Anyone who cares about Shakespeare will want to own and share this book JAMES SHAPIRO author of 1599 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare Dame Harriet Walter renowned for her wonderful portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve among others is one of Britain s most esteemed Shakespearean actors Now having played most of the Bard s female characters audaciously she lets them speak their minds With thirty new parts for Shakespeare s women written in Shakespearean verse and prose Harriet Walter goes between the lines of the plays to let us hear what she imagines sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly these women were really thinking Gertrude tells Hamlet the unvarnished truth Lady MacBeth has her regrets Kate the Shrew challenges us Juliet s nurse challenges the nobility Cleopatra s handmaiden reveals her mistress s secrets Ariel is frightened of freed