Cymbeline Refinished

The practice of improving Shakespear's plays, more especially in
the matter of supplying them with what are called happy endings, is
an old established one which has always been accepted without
protest by British audiences. When Mr Harley Granville-Barker,
following up some desperate experiments by the late William Poel,
introduced the startling innovation of performing the plays in the
West End of London exactly as Shakespear wrote them, there was
indeed some demur; but it was expressed outside ...