Dame Judi Dench has played everyone from the writer Iris Murdoch to M in the James Bond films. But among the roles the actress is most closely associated, are Shakespeare's heroines and some of his villians. Amongst those roles are the star-crossed lover Juliet, the comical Titania and the tragic Lady Macbeth.
Dame Judi Dench has played everyone from the writer Iris Murdoch to M in the James Bond films. But among the roles the actress is most closely associated, are Shakespeare's heroines and some of his villians.
The book is comprised of Dench's conversations with her friend, the actor and director Brendan O'Hea.1. Judi Dench built a career around Shakespeare's work. "I'd have to say, 'Well, look. There's some Butterkists in the other room, or there's a glass of champagne waiting for you. Let's just do five minutes.' I know your game, she'd say. So, yeah, it took a lot of coaxing. She's very, very slippery... But we got there in the end.""I never had realized that I need to know exactly where a speech is on a page and in relation to the other speeches," Dench said."Well, of course, I can't do that.
O'Hea points to how Shakespeare's work is embedded in the English language."You know, we didn't know the word 'assassination' until Shakespeare coined it. And there's the whole raft of other words and phrases that Shakespeare came up with."
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