Theatre For Thought, May 26, 2012
SHAKESPEARE'S SEXUAL SUMMERjoel fishbaneWere one to judge novelist John Irving's new book by its cover, it would seem to have little to do with theatre. Perhaps best known for The World According to Garp, Irving's latest book, In One Person, concerns a bisexual whose coming of age begins in the repressed 1950s. Yet the novel begins with an epigraph from Richard II ("Thus play I in one person many people / and none co…