Staging Shakespeare

This book begins with a phone call. You answer it and learn that you got the job. Several months from now you''re going to stage a Shakespeare play. Now … what do you do? I mean, what do you do after that initial burst of adrenalin has passed through your body and you realize you haven''t a clue as to what the play is really about, or what you might want to do with it? How exactly do you prepare f...