Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage

by Russ McDonald

Look to the Lady examines the careers, talents, and styles of three women who were acknowledged, each in her time, as the greatest interpreter of Shakespeare's heroines: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench. In the eighteenth century, Siddons was celebrated for playing Shakespeare's tragic women in a heroic, even "sublime" style. Terry, who reigned over the late nineteenth-century stage, had a softer, "beautiful" style and is remembered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820325066
• ISBN13: 9780820325064
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.8"