Player Kings proves that Shakespeare can be funny

Plus: what a wise move of Eugene O’Neill to die before Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published

From magazine issue: 20 April 2024

Ian McKellen as the noisy, swaggering dissembler Falstaff in Player Kings. Credit: Manuel Harlan

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