Description
This is one of Shakespeare’s most bitter and disillusioned dramas. It turns out that charity is not equal to goodness, and generosity worth nothing without an insight to human nature. Timon was well-known in the old times: the renaissance reader could meet him in one of Lucian’s dialogues. Thucydides wrote horrible things about Alcibiades, then Plutarch walked in his footsteps. The contemporary author who’d like to reconceptualize Shakespeare’s drama should rather start from their ideas than of the drama itself. This way we got an aspect about the reality of our own age. An aspect that is terrible, but without doubt worth to be performed on stage.