Books By Trevor Nunn, William Shakespeare - Author

Trevor Nunn is an English director. After studying at Cambridge, he won a director's scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 1962, where he became resident director. In 1964 he joined the RSC, becoming in 1965 an associate director and in 1968 its artistic director; from 1978 to 1986 he was its chief executive and joint artistic director with Terry Hands. Under his leadership the RSC was seen as one of the major companies in the world. His many outstanding RSC shows demonstrate an ability to create a convincing world on stage and allow individual actors to flourish. They include The Revenger's Tragedy (1966), his own adaptation of Hedda Gabler (1975), Macbeth with Ian McKellan and Judi Dench (1976), The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby (1980) and an Edwardian All's Well That Ends Well (1981). In 1981 he began his successful association with Andrew Llyod Webber, directing Cats (1981), Starlight Express (1984), and Aspects of Love (1989). The English had caught up with the Americans in the staging