Saw the trailer for Anonymous the other day, the Roland Emmerich film which recasts the age-old debate about whether Shakespeare actually wrote his famous plays into a political thriller.
What’s not in doubt, though, is that despite a million more distractions, the plays remain timeless and popular. As I found out when I saw Macbeth at The Globe for The National in front of a completely rapt audience of kids…
“In a world where the way we communicate is so shortened – what with texting and Twitter and so on – if you come to see Shakespeare, you’re seeing language used better than anyone has ever used it. He shows you the vast, imaginative possibility of language.”
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