Shakespeare's violent world was never drug-free | Letters
The heading of your review of the Globe Theatre's Imogen, "Sex, drugs and gang war erupt…" (26 September), could just as well be a strapline for a number of Shakespeare's plays, and while Cymbeline may not be a about a "drug-driven world", many of his plots hinge on the use of drugs, potions and poisons. From the "love-in-idleness" (Viola tricolor) love potion in A Midsummer Night's Dream to the "juice of cursed he…
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