Nicholas Hytner's production in 2012 turned this unfashionable play into a bitter fable about our credit cultureTimon, wrote Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail, "tends to be dismissed as one of Shakespeare's clunkers". He's right except that in the last 50 years, like so many of Shakespeare's unfashionable plays, it's enjoyed a bit of a theatrical renaissance. I suspect it's largely because we find its savagel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AM on May 3, 2014