A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration of the family that so dominated his approach to drama. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies, a former university lecturer and now an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC and Olivier Award winner, has written an engaging and deeply researched study of a topic that has intrigued him from playing Capulet in 1967, King Lear in 2002, to Polonius in 2008.

シェイクスピアが二十作以上で執拗に描いた父娘の絆。その聖域を、名優オリヴァー・フォード・デイヴィスが舞台人ならではの視座で鮮やかに解体する。リア王等を演じ抜いた者だけが辿り着ける、魂の震えや劇作家の私生活を浮き彫りにした情熱溢れる珠玉の考察です。 映像化された本作では、テキストの緻密な思索と肉体表現が融合しています。書物が提供する歴史的洞察と、映像が映し出す感情の機微。両メディアを往還することで、四百年の時を超える家族愛の普遍的な痛みが、圧倒的なリアリティを伴って読者の胸に迫るはずです。