Camille O’Sullivan returns in Shakespeare’s poem of rape and its aftermath, writes Esther McCarthy

WALTER Matthau, Peter Finch, Gary Oldman, and John Malkovich. 

WHAT a piece of work is a man?” pondered the eponymous foot-dragging prince in Shakepeare’s Hamlet, and some 400 years later the world — or, at the very least, the advertising world — is still grappling with that same question.