"Help! Shakespeare Made Me A Laughing Stock": The Night John Lennon Wore A Dress And Paul McCartney Died On Stage
How the Fab Four turned the Bard's beloved comedy into a proper carry-on, and why Macbeth might have suited them better
The Beatles performed in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for a 1964 TV special, with John Lennon in drag as Thisbe
The performance was part of Brian Epstein's master plan to make the band appeal to middle-class parents
Their interpretation of the "play within a play" scene revealed surprising parallels between Shakespearean comedy and Merseybeat h…
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