When Ralph Berry asks RSC director Bill Alexander to explain how a director chooses to do a Shakespearean play in a certain manner, Alexander replies: "For me, it all boils down to this: how best can I reveal this play, how best can I release my own perception of the play, my own feeling of what it's about, and what it says and why he wrote it" (Berry 178). To fulfill these goals, directors often choose to set a play in a different historical context, devise a thematic doubling scheme, and/or cut lines to emphasize a specific concept. Such decisions may reflect the director's wish to highlight certain ideas already present in the text; however, many directors have taken interpretive liberty too far and, as Jonathan Miller puts it, "denatured" the text (Berry 28). Because many of Shakespeare's plays carry with them long performance histories, directors often feel pressured to make their own mark on the tradition by providing a perspective that has not yet been explored, often at the expense of the text.