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Competition

Extracts from Shakespeare’s newly discovered play, Charles III

19 June 2021

9:00 AM

19 June 2021

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3203, you were invited to supply an extract from the newly discovered Shakespeare play Charles III.

I haven’t seen Mike Bartlett’s 2014 King Charles III but the theatre critic of this magazine wasn’t impressed: ‘A script that breezily defames the royals ought to be great fun, but this cheerless, overblown little play seems to have been created by political numbskulls for those of similar calibre.’

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