![]() This is well established both in England and around the world. ![]() It is a well-established tradition that productions of Shakespeare (and other classical theater/opera) on stage and screen need not always emphasize historical accuracy, but that productions can pick different aesthetics and themes to explore in different productions, and pick times/places real or imagined in which to set a given production. If anyone condemning it is doing so in good faith, I would urge them to consider the following: 1) Having studied the writer cover to cover, I can tell you that the overwhelming ethos of the writer's works is outward-looking/cosmopolitan, playful, humanistic, and above all skeptical of any received knowledge (such as "Shakespeare must be done this way and can't be done that way"). ![]() Edit: given the large fraction of user reviews condeming this film's casting due to the race or nation of the actors, I find it now necessary to preface my review by disagreeing with anyone advancing those claims.
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