Overview
Angela Thirlwell explores the fictitious life and the many after-lives
of Rosalind, Shakespeare's progressive new heroine, and her perennial
influence on drama, fiction and art. The book ranges widely across Tudor
history, theatre history, sexual politics, autobiography, art history
and filmography. This highly original 'biography' of Rosalind -
Shakespeare's greatest female creation - contains exclusive new
interviews with Juliet Rylance, Sally Scott, Janet Suzman, Juliet
Stevenson, Michelle Terry, award-winning director Blanche McIntyre, as
well as insights from Michael Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Greg Doran,
Rebecca Hall, Adrian Lester, Pippa Nixon, Vanessa Redgrave and Fiona
Shaw.