Elizabethan libel drama harks forward to today's superinjunctions| Siobhain Butterworth
Play about the earl of Leicester's battle to clear his name shows that in libel actions, prejudice rather than truth may win outI have never had the pleasure of seeing Miriam Margolyes on stage but there she was, unexpectedly, at Inner Temple last night, playing Mrs Picto, an Elizabethan maidservant with attitude, in a dramatic production written by Tom Shields QC and fellow media silk Andrew Caldecott.Set in 1561, M…
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