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Is Shakespeare funny?
One of the world's foremost directors of Shakespeare, Richard Eyre, says that the Bard's jokes 'aren't very good'. Part of the problem, he says is that "comedy dates very, very quickly". Does the actor Stephen Critchlow agree?
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