THEATRE: Enter a new Bard; Should Lope de Vega be thought Shakespeare's equal? With the Spaniard's play Peribanez about to open in London, PAUL TAYLOR considers the evidence.(Features) Posted: Apr 12, 2008 07:00:42
... production. The polymetric verse of the original has been rendered into supple, nuanced prose dialogue by Norris's wife Tanya Ronder. The two have been at pains to build on the ways in which Lope fashions fallible, flexible human beings rather than rigid code-controll ...