Where's Willy? Why there are so few plays about Shakespeare by Mark Lawson

In 400 years since his death, only a few playwrights " including George Bernard Shaw and Edward Bond " have turned the Bard into a characterThe 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death is being marked by numerous screen and stage productions, but perhaps the most original so far is a play that isn't by Shakespeare and in which he doesn't appear. Peter Whelan's The Herbal Bed, premiered by the RSC in 1996, has been re…

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