John Russell Brown obituary by Michael Coveney

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…

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