Peter Rhodes on the Bard's shocker, the food-pouch scandal and a lesson in advertising

In the wimpish spirit of our age, tickets for the National Theatre's new production of Hamlet come with trigger warnings of madness, grief and coercive behaviour. Given Ophelia's watery demise, I'm surprised there isn't a warning about falling into rivers.

Thanks to predictive spelling, the first draft of the above item ended with ”falling intolerable rivers.” Progress, eh?