Edited by Charles Whitworth. ISBN 0-19-281461-3
Re-Read
Began 2009.06.30
This is one of the four plays our exquisitely beautiful Bard on the Beach is presenting this year. I have arranged a departmental outing to it. And for great door prizes to be awarded to the best presentation of 20 lines from the play. So, time to bone up and get my tongue working.
Wish me luck.
For those of you unfamiliar or disenfranchised with Shakespeare (most likely because of inadequate teaching of it in high school), this play is a great slapstick-like farce in the same genre as The Marx Brothers or The Three Stooges. For example, a past production here at Bard-on-the-Beach blew down the house down with a very broad flatulence joke. Its all about mistaken identity taken to extreme. Absolutely unbelievable, in the best sense of great farce, and completely engaging.
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