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June 19, 2012 Arts & Events » Theater

Bard to Death 

Yes, even William Shakespeare could suck at times. "Cymbeline" is proof.

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Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw certainly had his share of harsh words for Shakespeare's romance "Cymbeline." "It is for the most part stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order," he wrote, later adding that the play's ending was "a tedious string…

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