Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins as Macbeth and English actress Diana Rigg as Lady Macbeth in a production of Shakespeare's tragedy 'Macbeth'.

As Shakespeare Developed as an Artist, So Did His Female Roles

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 17, 2015

Tina Packer, founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts and former Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, discusses the women of Shakespeare’s plays in Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays. As Shakespeare developed as an artist, so did the women in his plays. They became equals with men in status, and sexual passion.

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