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From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 25, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The Golden Ass The season at Shakespeare's Globe ends with this ambitious and enjoyable production in which Peter Oswald adapts Apuleius's second-century AD Roman novel about a young Athenian intellectual, Lucius, whose fascination with the dark arts leads to him being transformed into an ass. The story was a clear influence on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and also contains the first extant version of the legend of Cupid and Psyche, which was to exert such a hold on the Renaissance imagination. Tim Carroll's exuberant production draws its inspiration from music hall, pantomime and ...

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