THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE GLOBE DIRECTOR’S LOW OPINION OF SHAKESPEARE.

THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE GLOBE DIRECTOR’S LOW OPINION OF SHAKESPEARE. Hannah Furness writes of Emma Rice “cheerfully announcing her plans [1] to swap the genders of Shakespeare’s characters, [2] welcome in noisy, beer-swilling audiences and [3 and 4] chop out bits of Elizabethan language which don’t make sense to modern audiences”.

It’s not surprising that these plans are controversial, as evidenced, for example, by this spirited review by Michael Henderson, also in the Telegraph (May 7), of Rice’s first production at the Globe.

I numbered the items in Emma Rice’s plans so that I can give my opinions in response.

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