Controversial comic Russell Brand has just finished an early tour of a show called My Life by Shakespeare in which he tells his own life story using the words of the Bard – exactly as self-involved as that concept sounds – however it's been well reviewed. According to The Guardian, what Brand is doing is using ‘Shakespeare as self-help’: ‘“This [sic] is the winter of our discontent” speaks to adolescent Russell, angry and outcast in his native Grays. Anti-colonialist Caliban channels the rage he felt when his mum's new partner invaded their home. He recasts “Alas, poor Yorick” as a lament (hypothetical, thankfully) for his comedy hero David Jason.’
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