A writer putting a contemporary copyright line on a Shakespeare play has four main problems, which, like Olympic dives, increase in degree of difficulty: setting; names; plot; language.A new series of updated Shakespeare starts on BBC ONE next week.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Shakespeare on TV
The difficulties of updating Shakespeare's plays for TV, in a thoughtful article by Mark Lawson in The Guardian.
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