"But this rough Magicke..."

Alas, the great John Barton, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company has died.  I strongly recommend that you find and watch his Playing Shakespeare, nine master classes in which he draws amazing, ever-deeper and subtler performances from the likes of Judi Dench, Ben Kingsley Peggy Ashcroft, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Sinéad Cusack, Susan Fleetwood, Sheila Hancock, Alan Howard, Donald Sinden, Michael Williams.  He believed that Shakespeare's lines themselves told actors how to speak his verse.

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