Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. A well-written, emotional play about Elizabeth I wanting to be entertained (read: distracted) by Shakespeare's acting troupe on the eve of the Earl of Essex's beheading.I read it because I'm working at Bard this summer and it's ...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. This play has all the appeal of any voyeurism, together with the rather smug awareness that, being Canadian, one is included in all the "in" jokes. (It was a major tactical mistake to take it to Broadway!) Despite those unworthy-sounding motives for enjoying it, I...