Alan Howard obituary by Michael Coveney

One of the leading heroic actors of his generation, whose clarion voice would reverberate to the RSC's raftersWhen the great Shakespearean actor Alan Howard, who has died aged 77, returned to the stage after a five-year absence in 1990, all of his special qualities came into focus, ironically, in a piece of Victorian hokum by Henry Arthur Jones. The occasion of this revival of The Silver King at Chichester was a remi…

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