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Review: Understand every word of Shakespeare’s ‘Lear’ at Cal Shakes

At Cal Shakes right now, you can understand every word of a Shakespeare play.

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Review: Understand every word of Shakespeare’s ‘Lear’ at Cal Shakes

By Lily Janiak | September 15, 2022

Datebook’s review of Cal Shakes’ production of Marcus Gardley’s Lear.

At Cal Shakes right now, you can understand every word of a Shakespeare play. No obsolete vocabulary. No references to Jacobean English society that even academics can’t parse.