ABSTRACT
I had finished this book, and sent the well-overdue manuscript off to my long-suffering editor in New York, when I received this e-mail from Richard Cordery, who had been so memorable as Dromio of Syracuse in our very first OSC presentation, and the wonderful double of Pucke and Shylocke for our presentations in Neuss, and was preparing an RSC production:
Just a brief note co wish you and Christine well and to share with you my continuing enthusiasm for the work you introduced me to. It is tricky writing this with our new production still to open (one doesn't want to tempt fate) but I want you to know that not a day goes by, not a rehearsal do I attend, and not a performance have I given where the magic that you revealed to me about Shakespeare's scripts does not loom large. I don't proselytize, and am still amazed by the dullness of so many people who should know bener, but many of our (splendid) cast have sought me out on the quiet to ask "What is the secret of your appearing so clear in what you are saying? You seem to make it up as you go along."
