As much at home in Beckett as in Shakespeare, Ashcroft had imagination, industry and intelligence. She rose to the challenge of playing Queen Margaret in this mesmerising 1963 trilogyWhat does the name Peggy Ashcroft mean to people today? Some will have seen her as Barbie Batchelor in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown or as Mrs Moore in the David Lean film of A Passage to India. But even these performances were 30…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14AM on June 9, 2015