NYTimes.com: To get the gist of the comedy in the coming Broadway musical “Something Rotten!,” about a playwright competing against Shakespeare in 1595 London, consider this exchange between two characters who happen to be named Shylock and Nostradamus about the most avid theatergoers of the Elizabethan era.
“These are salt-of-the-earth people, they’ve worked hard all week, they don’t want metaphors,” Shylock says. “They want good old-fashioned frivolous entertainment.”
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