Drawing on his extensive experience as the director of acclaimed theatre company Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Andrew Hilton offers a passionate, illuminating exploration of Shakespeare's greatest plays and characters. Combining close textual analysis with practical insights, he delves into a fascinating range of topics such as emotional truth in the comedies, the importance of the plays' social dynamics, the choice of settings and periods, making and withholding moral judgements, working with different versions of the texts, and even adapting them. Throughout, Hilton urges us as...