Shakespeare Without Tears Author:Margaret Webster "Shakespeare and Webster," says John Mason Brown, "are becoming inseparably linked." Margaret Webster, the foremost producer-director of Shakespeare in the theater today, is an accomplished actress as well as a scholar and a critic. — "Shakespeare Without Tears" is an excellent title for an excellent book. I am weary of students and others who ... more »approach Shakespeare on their knees as if he were an horrific idol in a shrine, instead of being the most human of all the world's authors. Margaret Webster's book is an antidote to this unhappy attitude; anyone who reads it will never be afraid of Shakespeare again. -- Frank C. Baxter, Professor of English, University of Southern California, and originator of "Shakespeare on TV"« less