But It Messes Up The Meter! Grumpy Old Director Grumps About Gender-Swapping Shakespeare
Richard Eyre, a former director of the National Theatre in London, criticized a recent RSC production of Timon of Athens in which Lord Timon became Lady Timon " and, therefore, the line "I love that man" became "I love that woman". Eyre, stressing the importance of Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter (which that extra syllable […]