The Merry Wives of Windsor - is Shakespeare funny? | Much Ado About Shakespeare episode 10
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Ben Lawrence talks to director Fiona Laird and Professor Helen Barr of Oxford University about the problems of producing Shakespearean comedy for a 21st-century audience.
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