By Amanda Katz for The Boston Globe, 18 April 2015
One morning this month, Tina Packer was rushing across Harvard’s campus to professor Marjorie Garber’s 11 a.m. class on Shakespeare’s early plays when she learned a secret: The class, which she was guest-teaching, typically didn’t really get going till 11:07. She stopped short on the sidewalk. “Tricked! Tricked! Tricked!” she cried.
For a mere seven-minute reprieve, it was a Shakespearean level of drama. But despite a whirlwind of activities concerning the playwright, Packer, who at 76 stands as one of the country’s most notable interpreters of Shakespeare’s work, seems to seize every minute as an opportunity for more.
On top of her usual tasks — performing, directing, teaching — the founding artistic director of Lenox’s Shakespeare & Company is currently traveling to promote a new book, “Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare’s Plays.” In it, she makes a provocative argument: Shakespeare’s female characters matured as he did, and everything changed when, early in his career, he fell in love with the mysterious woman known as the Dark Lady.
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