Is it OK to rewrite classic plays?
By 'adapting' and updating historical texts " as the Royal Shakespeare Company is currently doing " aren't we just writing off the past?Do we need to rewrite the classics? Increasingly, people seem to think so. The latest news is that Jeanette Winterson and Anne Tyler are among the novelists who have signed up to a project involving "prose retellings" of Shakespeare's plays. Actually, I have no problem with that, sin…