A little monkey business Bill Willingham --
Speaking Shakespeare Sir Antony Sher --
Teaching Shakespeare to actors Camille Paglia --
The architecture of ideas Sir Ben Kingsley --
King Lear in retrospect Cicely Berry --
Method and madness Tobias Menzies --
Character and conundrum Rory Kinnear --
I know a hawk from a handsaw regardless of the weather, but that's pretty much it Matt Sturges --
The sun God James Earl Jones --
Othello in love Eamonn Walker --
Othello: a play in black and white Barry John --
Re-revising Shakespeare Jess Winfield --
"I say it is the moon" Brian Cox --
The question of Coriolanus Ralph Fiennes --
Trial by theatre, or free-thinking in Julius Caesar Richard Scholar --
Saying in The Merchant of Venice Stanley Cavell --
Searching for Shylock F. Murray Abraham --
Boldness be my friend Fiasco Theater --
Killing Shakespeare and making my play Karin Coonrod --
Playing Shakespeare at the Globe Dominic Dromgoole --
Tolstoy and the Shakespeare gesture Angus Fletcher --
The red scarf J.D. McClatchy --
Spring imagery in Warwickshire Germaine Greer --
What's in a name? Or Unnamed in the forest James Prosek --
The sea change David Farr --
Looking for Illyria Alan Gordon --
Shakespeare's siblings Eleanor Brown --
"A star danced" Eve Best --
Two loves, or the eternal triangle Dame Harriet Walter --
Odd man out Jane Smiley --
The living drama Dame Harriet Walker --
The tragedy of imagination in Antony and Cleopatra Joyce Carol Oates --
War and love Maxine Hong Kingston --
On the terrible and unexpected fate of the star-crossed lovers Peter David --
Shakespeare and four-colour magic Conor McCreery --
Rough magic Julie Taymor --
My own private river James Franco --
Enamoured with Shakespeare Isabel Allende.