{"product_id":"covering-shakespeare-david-weston-9781783190645","title":"Covering Shakespeare: An Actor's Saga of Near Misses and Dogged Endurance","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Weston has spent a lifetime acting in Shakespeare's plays, and has been directed by the likes of Sir Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and Michael Croft. Chosen as Ian McKellen's understudy in the RSC's King Lear, David toured the world and recorded his experiences in his diary, which became the award-winning Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale, called 'Salty, evocative and informative' by the Daily Mail. It went on to win the prestigious S.T.R. Theatre Book of the Year Prize for 2011. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Covering Shakespeare Weston goes even further, tracing his sixty-two year association with the Bard. He has appeared in twenty-nine of the thirty-seven plays, many several times, and has worked with all the major companies to the outmost limits of the Fringe, from Hollywood to Hong Kong, with the great, the mediocre and the forgotten. He has stories and reminiscences about them all, as well as advice for young actors written in his inimitable style. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book also contains a synopsis of each play and table outlining the total number of lines per character in each of Shakespeare's plays, rediscovered from an 1889 edition of Evenings with Shakespeare: A Handbook to the Study of His Works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Weston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783190647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783190645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oberon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.20d","brand":"David Weston","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46962681020671,"sku":"9781783190645","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66e5b98d-478b-4e95-ba7c-36a60fa0738d.jpg?v=1750652203","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/covering-shakespeare-david-weston-9781783190645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}