Dear Mr. Shakespeare: Letters to a Jobbing Playwright

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Dear Mr. Shakespeare, Thank you for submitting your script. We loved it!However What if Shakespeare was writing today What if Shakespeare had to deal with the prejudices of todays producers What if he had to circumnavigate the same rapids of bureaucracy, financial constraints, cuts in funding, political correctness, forced re-writes, miscasting, rejections, put-downs and "friendly advice" that the writers of today encounter Taking todays attitudes Simon Reade has produced a sharp and novel companion to Shakespeare, for aficionados, actors, academics and audiences alike.

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Simon Reade is a dramatist, director and producer. He has been Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic and Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company and at London's Gate Theatre.