Shakespeare and me: Dame Judi Dench
Dame Judi Dench, who played Ophelia in Hamlet in 1957, on what Shakespeare means to herShakespeare really understood women. The emotions, twists and turns that Cleopatra goes through are phenomenal.I remember the first time I saw Shakespeare as if it were the week before last. I was seven and I was taken to see Macbeth at my brother's school; he played Duncan. He said: "What bloody man is that?" I thought it was a ve…