Emily asked Andrew Dickson:

What’s your favorite Shakespeare play and why?

Andrew Dickson My favourite plays always seem to be the ones I've most recently seen! If the production is good, then you tend to think, "gosh, I'd forgotten that, how interesting", and it zips right to the top of the list. I admit to having a thing about the late plays -- in Worlds Elsewhere they seemed to crop up everywhere and on every continent I visited. I find them enormously moving: there's something about their blend of mystery and magic, the renunciations and (perhaps) reconciliations, the way they're so smart and self-conscious about the nature of art and artifice. If I had to choose one play, it would probably be The Winter's Tale. But I did watch it in London just the other evening, so see above ...

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