CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Let's face it: Shakespeare had help

guardian.co.uk: The depressingly predictable decision to make Shakespeare the focus of Olympic-year festivals in British theatre and at the BBC increases the sense that cultural and academic establishments are pulling in different directions. While the name of William Shakespeare is slapped ever more enthusiastically across theatre posters and radio and TV billings, universities are reducing the size of his typeface to make space for collaborators: most recently, the suggestion that Thomas Middleton wrote significant sections of All's Well That End's Well.

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