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Thread #154097   Message #3613145
Posted By: Jack Campin
27-Mar-14 - 08:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Updates' - why?
Subject: RE: BS: 'Updates' - why?
I can't abide modernised, updated productions.

Me either. In particular any version of Shakespeare in modern upper-class theatrical English - Gielgud, Olivier, all that lot. They're simply trying to claim ownership of English literature on behalf of the propertied elite whose dialect they are speaking in. (A lot of Shakespeare's rhymes don't even work in their weird affected language).