Ben Crystal
Diving through Shakespeare's writings of love, sex and comedy, Ben Crystal ('the Jamie Oliver of Shakespeare' BBC Radio 5), rediscovers the Bard as master dramatist: a true man of the theatre, who had a terrific sense of what makes a captivating play. The theatres Shakespeare wrote for were two-way, dynamic - a shared experience with the audience, an afternoon's journey of love, betrayal, death, lust, comedy and, sometimes, the odd song. Back by popular demand, this year the author of Shakespeare on Toast tackles Shakespeare's attitude to love, sex and comedy, and finds a lot more tragedy than comedy, more betrayal than love, and more mystery than sex...
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