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Too Much Blood: The Problem With Shakespeare’s Tragedies

THEATRE Posted: June 24, 2014 11:52 pm

Jesse Green: “Theater critics thus have the opportunity – provided almost entirely by Shakespeare, since contemporary drama is notably short on gore – to watch hundreds of people die horribly each season. … Rarely do I see the plays done well enough to justify the awfulness they ask us to witness. And if they’re not properly awful, what’s the point? Do Much Ado and be done with it.”

THEATRE Published: 06.20.14

Read the story in Vulture Published: 06.20.14

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