To BP or not BP … Would Shakespeare have taken oil company money?
The RSC has finally turned its back on BP funding after actor Mark Rylance said it is what the Bard would have wanted. But as Simon Callow points out " the playwright was hardly a model of corporate social responsibility What, as Falstaff might say, a lot o' 'pother. The Royal Shakespeare Company made waves last week by announcing that it would no longer take sponsorship from BP " ending a controversy that has dragg…