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Dull and overlong traipse through Charles Dickens's England Shakespeare did not write his own plays, claims Sir Derek Jacobi Jacobi's curmudgeon is wonderfully played

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Dull and overlong traipse through Charles Dickens's England

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Charles Dickens's England is painful in the extreme, showing how even the best actor can be made uncomfortable by clumsy direction.... more

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Jacobi is exquisitely funny in Twelfth Night

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Jacobi's curmudgeon is wonderfully played

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