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“We’re always really trying to get to the musicality of the language and the rhythms — to in some ways invoke the verse of Elizabethan and post-Elizabethan texts,” he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2018

A history play about history yet to be made, Bartlett’s script imagines a post-Elizabethan world in which the accession of Prince Charles thrusts the UK into social and political chaos.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2015

This was not simply a wedding but the clearest indication yet of how the House of Windsor is positioning itself for the post-Elizabethan age.

From Time • Apr. 29, 2011

In the post-Elizabethan years he finally gave up the bottle, did a few good plays and movies, notably Equus, and many bad ones, such as The Klansman and The Wild Geese.

From Time Magazine Archive