Shakespeare's Margaret - Charles O'Malley

She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than Lear’s daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or female, whose entire life–from youth to old age–appears on stage. She has allowed the likes of Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Mirren and Sophie Okonedo full range for their stunning talents. Yet who was Margaret of Anjou? In the fifteenth century, she was a fourteen-year-old French princess married to an English king, soon thrust into command amid a... Zobrazit více