Do we stage too much Shakespeare?
Is the Bard still all things to all people? I believe our staging of the same few plays in increasingly esoteric ways is destroying his contemporary relevanceThe avalanche of Hamlets that engulfs us every other year prompts an obvious question: is British theatre addicted to Shakespeare? Can you ever have too much of a good thing?There are so many good reasons for presenting Shakespeare " above all, the astonishing q…