Old Vic Prefaces: Shakespeare and the ProducerA collection of the author's talks to the casts of Shakespeare plays he directed at the Old Vic Theatre between 1949 and 1953. Plays covered are 'Love's labour's lost', "Hamlet', 'Twelfth night', 'The merry wives of Windsor', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'The merchant of Venice', and 'Julius Caesar'. |
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