Eminent Shakespearean scholar and theatre director who advocated the primacy of the playwright's musical language in modern productionsJohn Russell Brown, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished Shakespearean scholar who was also involved in practical theatre " he was a close associate of the director Peter Hall at the National Theatre for 15 years from 1973 " but was paradoxically opposed to directors filtering th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AM on September 9, 2015