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Remembering Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean Heyday (and Forgetting His Recent Lear)

by Helen Shaw

In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven't seen since.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on December 11, 2024