Aside from the obvious misogyny of Shakespeare's comedy for modern audiences, there is the problem of the heroine's unpalatable final speech in which she berates women for not being more subservient to their husbands. Lloyd's solution is to frame the play as a country-western beauty pageant to choose "this year's Miss Lombardy" whose emcee sounds an awful lot like presidential candidate Donald Trump. In fact, there i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33AM on June 18, 2016