A fabulous teacher once described to me, in a harsh English screech, the probable conditions that Shakespeare was working under during the late sixteenth century. "On one side," she said, "were the noises of bear-baiting," a thankfully diminished sport in which a pack of vicious dogs was set on a chained-up bear in a bloody [...]
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:41AM on May 30, 2013