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As You Like It: was it the world's first sketch show? by Andrew Dickson

Is As You Like It the first ever sketch show? The duo behind the National's new staging reveal how they gave it 'the wow factor'Who's the greatest Shakespearean heroine of them all? Cleopatra, in all her shimmering variety? Viola, fending off love and lunacy at every turn? The scenery-chewing Lady Macbeth? The name on most theatregoers' lips would be Rosalind, the fast-talking, wise-cracking heroine of the sunny come…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AM on November 2, 2015

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