Unmasking the past in Shakespeare's plays | Letters by Letters

Jonathan Bate (Umasked, G2, 21 April) tracks Shakespeare's storytelling of "the old, old story" back to the "magic, myth and metamorphosis" of Ovid but perhaps there are trace elements of even earlier times that he brought to the stage. The excavation of 10,000-year-old red deer antlers from Star Carr in Yorkshire are now thought to have been part of ritual headdresses. The modern Abbots Bromley horn d…

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