From Lyn Gardner at the Guardian UK theatre blog, Should Shakespeare be barred?:
“Shakespeare is our cultural medicine, often nasty but we swallow it all the same because like cod liver oil we think it must be good for us.”“As the US critic Gordon Rogoff so succinctly put it: ‘Shakespeare is feared by the young precisely because their elders are so damned sanctimonious about him.’ Every Shakespeare revival should treat the play as if it was brand new and the ink barely dry on the page, and until that happens and we have worked out how Shakespeare really can be our contemporary in 21st century Britain, maybe we should do him a favour and give him a rest.”
Do we have this same problem with Shakespeare in North America? How about a five-year moratorium on performing Shakespeare in Canada?
