The many faces of Falstaff: Shakespeare's tragicomic knight is as complex as Hamlet | Theatre
Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning
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Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning
The Shakespearean actor joins Robert Icke’s adaptation of Henry IV after previously saying he ‘didn't understand’ the character
Paul Dean reviews “Shakespeare and the Middle Ages” by Curtis Perry.
Playing the expectations game is dangerous. You rewrite Romeo & Juliet, you’d best bring something new to the table. You write about the fall of Jerusalem, there had better be something uplifting in that awful story. And if you write a novel about William Shakespeare, you’d best hope that you
“Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English,” says Mistress Quigley, played with cheeky humor by Martine Fleurisma in Elm…