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Chicago Shakespeare’s King Charles III owes less to the Bard than to Sophocles

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A political dinosaur makes a last stand in Mike Bartlett’s drama. Barring divine intervention, the 90-year-old reigning sovereign of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II, will eventually die, and her eldest son, Prince Charles (currently 68), will ascend the throne—assuming, of course, that he's not also dead by then, which would be just his luck. In King Charles III, Brit playwright Mike Bartlett imagines a less than orderly succession.…

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