Tina Packer, founding director of theater group Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, Mass., draws on 40 years of acting and directing experience as she explores the Bard鈥檚 female characters and considers what they can tell us about his evolving understanding of women. Packer argues convincingly that Shakespeare鈥檚 works provide evidence of emotional and spiritual growth over the course of a lifetime 鈥� growth that allowed him to create increasingly complex female characters. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Women of Will" here.
