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She Speaks!

What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said

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She Speaks!

著者： Harriet Walter
ナレーター： Harriet Walter
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New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress, Dame Harriet Walter DBE
'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

'Bold and original . . . Anyone who cares about Shakespeare will want to own and share this book'
JAMES SHAPIRO

'With her gravitas, empathy, intellect and absolute belly laugh wit, the unheard voices soar. A real celebration of her life and art' PHYLLIDA LLOYD

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.

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 freedom; Ophelia surprises us; Olivia surprises herself; and the Witches have a good old rap.

Harriet Walter herself says, 'I worship Shakespeare. His psychological insight is second to none but the mirror that he held up to nature reflected a predominantly male image of the world. I pondered the long shadow of his genius and tried to think of ways to let a little sunlight in on some of his women's stories. I like to think he wouldn't mind'.

'Harriet Walter's years of inhabiting and imbibing so many of those great roles gives her a special licence to speak for them' GREG DORAN, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company

'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

'Effortlessly witty, charming, surprising, delightful. Clearly, Harriet Walter should have been in the
writers' room with us for Succession' FRANCESCA GARDINER

'An incisive, funny, mischievously subversive homage to Shakespeare's heroines, written by one of mine' MEERA SYAL

'With characteristic wit, compassion and fierce intelligence, she gives tantalising voice to the Bard's female greats' TAMSIN GREIG©2024 Harriet Walter シェイクスピア ジェンダー研究 大衆小説 女性学 戯曲・演劇 文学史・文学批評 文芸小説 社会科学
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She Speaks! - bold and original - is many rewarding books in one. In these pages one of the great actors of our age asks: 'What were Ophelia, Rosalind, Cleopatra and Shakespeare's other women characters really thinking?' Drawing on her own rich performance history, Harriet Walter gives them voice in Shakespearean pentameter verse, and what they have to say is both witty and profound. I was dazzled many years ago when I saw her play Ophelia at the Royal Court, and continue to be dazzled by her brilliance and hard-won insights into the plays. It's a book that anyone who cares about Shakespeare will want to own, and share (James Shapiro, author of 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE)
Did Lady Macbeth instruct the weird sisters what to tell her husband? What happened when Cleopatra was reunited with Mark Antony in Heaven? And what did Hermione really do shut away for those sixteen years?
Harriet Walter's years of inhabiting and imbibing so many of those great roles gives her a special licence to speak for them. But the wit of these delightful poems also belies frustration, exasperation, and like a true "Lover's Complaint", real affection (Greg Doran, former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
With her gravitas, empathy, intellect and absolute belly laugh wit, the unheard voices soar. A real celebration of her life and art (Phyllida Lloyd, BAFTA and Tony winning theatre and film director)
Brilliant, witty but also profound and moving. They are an astonishing achievement, technically, but also in their emotion. They haul you into an alternative universe with such brevity and in such a striking way. They are funny, disturbing, challenging and sometimes heartbreaking. They are a triumph and I am sure will become instant classics. (David Thompson, Origin Films)
The writing is effortlessly witty, charming, surprising, delightful . . . moving . . . just GORGEOUS. I cheered aloud at the end of Kate! Clearly Harriet Walter should've been in the writers' room with us for Succession (Francesca Gardiner, writer, SUCCESSION)
What a privilege, joy and utter pleasure to read Harriet Walter's marvellous verse ... One of the most joyful aspects of the work is that of course, Harriet is the 'real deal', in that she has lived and breathed life into these women - and men - on the page and brought them not only to the stage but to the ear, also. This gives us, the reader, an especial ringside seat to the arena where a Shakespearean artist shares her private passions, realizations, discoveries and internal debate; the character of this piece, is above all, undeniably Harriet Walter (Claire van Kampen, Senior Research Fellow & Associate Shakespeare's Globe)
If you liked Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife - you will love this incisive, funny, mischievously subversive homage to Shakespeare's heroines, written by one of mine (Meera Syal)
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