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To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked! ○

found 2026 › Apr › 22 (Wed) @ 05:03 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

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Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

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