VDM Verlag Shakespeare's Mistress Quickly: An Actor's Exploration

Through the use of journaling, historical research and creative interpretation, the author takes us on her journey to discover the inner motivations and energies swirling within the recurring character of Shakespeare's Mistress Quickly. Focusing upon Quickly as she is written within The Merry Wives of Windsor, Rossman shares her approach to the process of creating a very human, heartfelt woman, one who is as recognizably real for Shakespeare's time as she would be for ours - driven by the same passions and desires. Included in this work is also a detailed script and character analysis of the role in relation to the play itself. Rossman's journal of the rehearsal and performance process gives the reader a sense of the various paths considered and those ultimately taken in her search for artistic integrity. Finally, a key element of the performance-related side of Rossman's research is an exhaustive exploration of the cultural, historical, political, economic, and religious attributes of Shakespeare?s times and how these factors drive Mistress Quickly?s interactions with others, her perspectives of the society in which she lives, and her personal behavior.