Nick Dear’s new work will delve into mysterious relationship between the Bard and his cross-dressing aristocratic patron Henry WriotheslyShakespeare’s alleged romantic liaison with his patron,the third Earl of Southampton, is to be explored in a new play that will debut at the Nuffield theatre.
Bafta-winning writer Nick Dear, or whose recent adaptation of Frankenstein was directed by Danny Boyle at the National Theatre,will exercise his new work to delve into the mysterious relationship that existed between the playwright and his famously effeminate and attractive aristocratic patron, Henry Wriothesly.
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Source: theguardian.com