Kozintsev interprets Shakespeare’s plays as a profoundly political works with broad social dimensions where all classes and groups- royal family, court nobles, the military, the masses down to the most ragged beggars- are drawn into the explosive disorder resulting from an arbitrary decision by a self-indulgent ruler.
– Douglas Radcliff-Umstead
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