Big Charles 2

A steal from wikipedia, revealing 'As You Like It' to be the pivot between the earlier histories and the later tragedies. Perhaps all the soul searching, well brought out in this production, was a portent. Or was it just reflecting an end of century, courtly taste for such stuff?

It can also be deduced that this play was written when the bard was about 35, with his dying when he was about 50, rather younger than I had realised. But he must have been very tuned into the world to get so much stuff into his plays while still, by my standards, quite a young man.