King Lear is generally acknowledged to be Shakespeare’s greatest work. The play is notoriously difficult, excessively long, deeply harrowing and, not surprisingly, his least popular tragedy. Kenneth B ...									
								
								
									
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										Maggie O’Farrell’s multi-prize-winning novel about Shakespeare’s family has been adapted for the RSC by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Erica Whyman. 18-year-old William, a Latin tutor, living in W ...									
								
								
									
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										The way Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, is portrayed has changed over the centuries. Initially, in Shakespeare’s day, he was played as a comic villain. In 1741, Charles Macklin was the first actor to ...									
								
								
									
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										What a farce! Well, what else would you expect when a play by France’s foremost comic playwright is rendered into riotous rhyming couplets by Scouser poet Roger McGough? The premiere and subsequ ...									
								
								
									
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