![]() ![]() ![]() After all, I was just an ordinary British kid in a sleepy-eyed seaside town stuck in a drab little excuse of a state school, which failed its OFSTED inspections and expelled its pupils at the slightest whiff of trouble.ĭespite my passion for English Language and Literature, reading Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet for my SATs and GCSEs failed to convince me that Shakespeare was anything more than an archaic throwback-a relic, just like Chaucer-with dialogue almost as cryptic as an alien language and stage plays as unfathomable as Situationist performance art. William Shakespeare’s King Lear is, by my reckoning, his bona fide masterpiece, but even as a poet and a writer myself, it took me a long time to grow a fondness for the bard. ![]()
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