British Shakespeare productions need more than scene-stealing stars by Lyn Gardner

Coriolanus, King Lear and Richard II have all been hot tickets - but possibly not for all the right reasons"The Bard, 450 years after his birth, is on a roll," trumpeted an Evening Standard editorial last Friday. It pointed to the plaudits for Simon Russell Beale's King Lear at the National Theatre, the box-office success of Coriolanus at the Donmar, David Tennant's Richard II which closed at the Barbican last weeken…

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