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Baring the Bard: Two Shows Where Shakespeare Meets Burlesque by Mark Hein

By Mark Hein In the four centuries since Shakespeare wrote his plays, they've endured every imaginable kind of directorial and editorial treatment. For example, in Nahum Tate's 1681 version of Lear, Cordelia doesn't die but enjoys a love affair with Edgar, a happy ending grafted onto the classic tragedy. In an 1838 Antony and Cleopatra, her golden barge floated onstage bearing an orchestra, propelled by a wave machi…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:01PM on July 14, 2017

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