Word: mercutio
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...Terry and second cousin of designer Gordon Craig. By 21, in Chekhov and Coward, he was a London fixture. He directed and starred in the renowned 1935 Romeo and Juliet (the cast included Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans and Alec Guinness), advancing Olivier's career by swapping roles (Romeo and Mercutio) in mid-run. Later he championed bold young playwrights, directing Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice and Edward Bond's Bingo...
...writes, with typical shrewdness, "and he found in Elizabeth that person." In the woman who was forced to work as a cashier in a Toad Hall garden center while her now famous husband gallivanted around the world collecting lovers, the author finds a hero more enduring than her lacquered Mercutio...