Her extensive repertoire of Shakespearean roles in a five-decade stage career include Katherine in "Taming of the Shrew", Desdemona and Emilia in "Othello", Portia in "The Merchant of Venice", Gertrude in "Hamlet", Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth, Rosalind in "As You Like It", Viola in "Twelfth Night", Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mistree Page in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and Elizabeth in "Richard III".