This account of the nuts and bolts of performing William Shakespeare’s plays by Judi Dench is as brilliant as it is frustrating. The insights are all there, but the arrangement is jagged: it’s like the full transcript of a journalistic interview, without any shaping hand having turned it into a graceful story.
According to Dame Judi Dench in her new book, which dances with brilliance and mischief, Shakespeare wasn t academic - he was saucier than Confessions Of A Window Cleaner.