SHAW REWRITES SHAKESPEARE
_ George Berhard Shaw has carried out his old threat to rewrite Shakespeare, and has xevised the last act of Cymbeline, at present being performed at the. Embassy Theatre, London, as *fby Williani Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw." One of Mr. Shaw's passages extraordinary is when the king 's son, hailed as heir to the throne of Britain, replies, "Must I be compelled to worship priest-invented gods and not. free to
wed the woman of my choice, being stopped at every turn by some old fool crying, 'You must not,' or, still worse, 'You must ' ? I abdicate aud pass the throne to Polydore." Polydore replies: "Do you, by heavens. Thanlc you for nothing, brother." Mr. Shaw, in an , interview, said : " You must not read more into the passage than is on the surfaee. Take it as an indication that I consider that abdication is a happy solution to a king's difficulties,"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 10
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