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'Will' imagines punk Shakespeare - the latest of our fantasies of the Bard
The series, which debuts Monday evening, was created by Craig Pearce, who imagines an Elizabethan world of sex, drugs and theater crowds resembling mosh pits. Perhaps it's because there's something titillating about unmasking the man whose name has become synonymous with genius, and whose plays embody universal ideas. Alexa Alice Joubin, a professor of English and Shakespeare scholar at George Washington University, says that representations of the writer's life fall into three ...