I can’t believe Emma Rice has essentially been fired from her role as artistic director of The Globe. What exactly did they want and/or expect from her? Larger audiences? Check. Increased revenue? Check. Greater audience diversity and demographic? Check. In my opinion, this smacks of old school Shakespearean elitism, snobbery and trying to keep Shakespeare ‘special’ and in some way inaccessible to the ‘great unwashed’, an ethic which I fear Shakespeare himself would have taken issue with.

It’s a shame to see you go, Emma.