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Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford

Theatre Royal, Plymouth
From: Thursday, 10th June 2010
To: Saturday, 12 June 2010

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Synopsis

Shakespeare is the greatest writer the world has ever known. He is the man who created the cleverest comedies and most towering tragedies in our literature, who conceived characters as consummate as King Lear, Macbeth and Othello and as savvy as Puck and Touchstone and whose numerous witty aphorisms have become part of everyday speech. But we know nothing about him. Or do we?

Our Review:

Karen Bussell - 13 June 2010

What a delight!

The charismatic Simon Callow's one-man show Shakespeare: The Man From Stratford is an enchanting treatise combining biography, history and quotation.

Structured around Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man, Callow takes us in beloved son of the Stratford glove maker through theatre stable lad and extra to the renowned, rich playwright buried ignobly in a Midlands churchyard.

With little more than a few books, a fire, wooden sword, toy dog and soldiers, Callow illustrates the life and times of Tudor and Stewart England, its politics and everyday minutiae linking them with the man and his writings. Polonius, Mark Anthony, King Lear, Juliet, Macbeth, Malvolio, Hamlet and others all make their appearance.

The collaboration between writer Jonathan Bate, a respected Shakespeare biographer and Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, and Callow (Postcards From the Edge, Four Weddings ...

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