dumbfoundry

The Contractor is one of the most perfectly conceived plays of the past 50 years. [...] What is completely silly, and beyond the bounds of imagination, is that David Storey wrote it in two days. [...]

Shakespeare can't have been a slouch, either. The academic industry would love us to think he spent long months drafting and redrafting his works. Well, he wrote 37 plays in 20 years, on top of the poems, and running a theatre, and acting, and building up his property portfolio, and schlepping between Stratford and London. I'd give each play three weeks. Tops. He sponged up his literary sources, then wrote fast. [...]

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