(Michael Billington’s article appeared 12/19 in the Guardian.)
"A sad tale's best for winter," says the boy Mamilius; and, possibly because of the season of the year, I became unusually aware of the fairytale elements in Shakespeare's play while watching David Farr's impressive Stratford transfer. We are ushered into a world of cruel kings, wronged children and miraculously reunited families that seems to anticipate the Brothers Grimm.
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