The reason for capes

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"On the other hand you can rarely do Shakespeare in completely modern dress because that limits the imagination.  Basically the audience is saying 'Why does he look like that, and yet talk like that?'" - Peter Hall, Managing Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Source: 
"Avoiding a Method"
Hall,Peter
Theatre Arts, August-September 1963, Vol. XLVII, No. 8-9
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