Watching Shakespeare

"Watching Shakespeare" is an academic book aimed at theatergoers that offers an in-depth analysis of eighteen Shakespeare plays. The author, Anthony Dawson, highlights the crucial decisions that actors and directors must make and illustrates how different interpretations arise from these choices. The book's goal is to enhance the audience's awareness of the diverse possibilities that a Shakespeare text offers and to enable them to better evaluate specific productions. Dawson argues that contradictions and creative inconsistencies are characteristic of Shakespeare's works, and that productions work best when they embrace opposites and strive for balance, rather than pursuing one-sided readings or suppressing elements that do not fit a particular concept.