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The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
RSC artistic director Gregory Doran on how changing words can be compunctious
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
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- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
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- O for a muse of fire
- George Monbiot on the definition of neoliberalism
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
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