Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe macabre literary bent of the Jacobean playwright John Webster is celebrated in Shakespeare in Love, which briefly depicts the young Webster torturing mice. TS Eliot famously declared that the author of two of the most distinctive early 17th-century plays " Malfi and The White Devil " "saw the skull beneath the skin". The skull is set in a rictus grin in Owen Horsley's stylish, 100-minut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AM on September 8, 2013