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Words, words, words: are we too in thrall to Shakespeare's language? by Lyn Gardner

Ivo van Hove's Kings of War and Forced Entertainment's Complete Works prove that a performance is about far more than the textOver the last couple of weeks I've seen three very different versions of the scene in Henry IV Part II, in which the future Henry V tries on his ailing father's crown. And not a single one of them was exactly as it appears on the page. One was in The Famous Victories of Henry V, created for th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM on June 30, 2015

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