Shakespeare’s ‘lost child’ makes rare appearance in London

Shakespeare’s ‘lost child’ makes rare appearance in London
Updated 19 June 2015
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Shakespeare’s ‘lost child’ makes rare appearance in London

Shakespeare’s ‘lost child’ makes rare appearance in London

LONDON: As every theater-lover knows, “Othello,” “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” all end with bodies littering the stage, so it’s a rare thrill for audiences to watch a work by Shakespeare without knowing exactly what will happen next.
The suspense is delivered by one of London’s off-West End pub theaters, which until June 27 is staging a play that more than “The Tempest” can claim to be William Shakespeare’s last work, but is performed less than once a decade.
“The Two Noble Kinsmen,” written in collaboration with John Fletcher, and which is referred to as Shakespeare’s “lost child,” was long dismissed as unworthy of being considered an official part of the canon.