Up in night for King John Act 4 despite the Bastard being read by a child or a woman with the flu

And what you need for the Bastard is Shakespeare's actor who went on to play Hotspur. The soul of the play is the vibrant cocky phrase-forging muscle man.

I see that I read the play 7 times in 1956 and in 1958 (after I was back working on the railroad nights) I bought a tape recorder and read it all aloud to go to sleep to at 5 in the morning. How little has changed.