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We close the Daunt Books Festival with a very special event indeed.
We are pleased to announce that Dame Harriet Walter joins us for a talk and readings from her fantastic new book She Speaks!: What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said.
Dame Harriet Walter is one of Britain’s most esteemed Shakespearean actors. Now, having played most of Shakespeare’s female characters, audaciously, she lets them speak their minds.
With new parts for thirty Shakespearean women, written in ‘Shakespearean’ verse and prose, Harriet Walter goes between the lines of the plays to let us hear what she imagines – sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly – these women were really thinking.
This is a remarkable chance to hear dramatic readings from the book, and Harriet will also be joined by writer, biographer and historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who will be asking the questions. Lucy is the author of The Pike, Peculiar Ground and, most recently, The Scapegoat.
Ticket price includes a glass of wine or soft drink.