The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThe RSC's shrewdly intelligent take on Thomas Dekker's Elizabethan drama is both sobering and comicOne tends to think of Thomas Dekker's play as a jolly, red-nosed Elizabethan comedy celebrating the shoemaker's craft. But Phillip Breen's shrewdly intelligent RSC revival reminds us of the play's sombre background: when it was written in 1599, London workers lived in fear of being impressed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AM on December 19, 2014