Mike Bartlett: How I wrote King Charles III
Playwright Mike Bartlett knew he wanted King Charles III to be a Shakespearean drama " a family epic in five acts, complete with a ghost and a comic subplot. But would writing in iambic pentameter prove too great a challenge?The idea for King Charles III arrived in my imagination with the form and content very clear, and inextricably linked. It would be a play about the moment Charles takes the throne, and how h…