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Harriet Walter is one of the world's most accomplished Shakespearean actors, though most of us will likely recognise her for her many memorable TV characters, which have earnt her multiple Primetime Emmy nominations.
In recent years she's played the abominable Lady Caroline in Succession, and parts in Ted Lasso, Killing Eve, The Crown, and Downton Abbey.
Her decades with the Royal Shakespeare Company have seen her play most of Shakespeare's leading women and despite her immense admiration for Shakespeare's mind, words and empathy for his female characters, the fact remains that his women rarely take centre stage.
Harriet's book She Speaks!: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said imagines in 'Shakespearean' verse and prose what, with more lines and stage time, we'd have heard the Bard's leading women say.
Harriet Walter will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival 13-18 May.
