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Bard labour: Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow tackle Shakespeare the man by Andrew Dickson

What kind of a man was Shakespeare? A cold husband and a cruel father " or quite the party man? Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow recreate his life in two very different productions'I've always thought," says Simon Callow ruminatively, "that Shakespeare was the kind of guy who goes to a party, nurses one glass, says nothing, and goes home with the prettiest girl in the room."I imagine 1,000 biographers keeling over in…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PM on February 29, 2012

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