 |  | | | Shakespeare's women - Good Wives | 02 Jan 2007 | | |
Being cast in the meaty role of a Shakespearean heroine is a challenge to which most actors aspire. However, he also wrote a range of smaller female parts, many of them a key to the development of the plot. We have the wenches like Doll Tearsheet in ‘Henry IV’ or Audrey in ‘As You like It’; the handmaidens and waiting gentlewomen, Charmian and Iras in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ and Margaret and Ursula in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.
As the Royal Shakespeare Company continues its ‘Complete Works’ Season, Judi Herman has been looking at some of Shakespeare’s ‘best supporting roles’. In the first of this series, she’s been looking at Shakespeare’s wives and his take on marriage. | |
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