Are Shakespeare Conceptual Gambits Getting Out of Control?
Peter Marks, writing in the Washington Post, thinks about the reasons we are seeing so many of the Bard's plays updated to 20th and 21st century settings. And he wonders about the cost of all this "tinkering."The fussing with the cosmetics of Shakespeare has become so routine that it is a shock to more devoted patrons of the Bard when any of his plays are performed these days in both the time and place the auth…