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Category: Equivocation

What’s Equivocation about?

November 5, 2015

It’s London, 1606. William Shakespeare (in the play spelled Shagspeare, or Shag) has just been made an offer he can’t refuse: King James I wants him to write a play…

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Questions For Shakespeare

October 22, 2015

Bill Cain spent months researching and writing Equivocation, a play that imagines a crisis in Shakespeare’s creative and personal life. He’s spent more time revising the script for production. Here…

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The Tension Between

October 22, 2015

By Dramaturg Jessica Bedford In an interview with New York magazine, playwright Bill Cain discussed his favorite example of equivocation. It comes from Miep Gies who told the Nazis, treat…

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