Measure for Measure has been staged three times in London this year. It goes to show just how resonant its themes of sexual licentiousness and twisted democracy are today " especially in RussiaWhile Shakespeare wrote only one formal trilogy " the Henry VI plays " the theatre schedules have a habit of arranging his one-off plays into unofficial sequences, as different productions of the same play occur in rapid succes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM on October 27, 2015