"Shakespeare would have been appalled."

Asserts Julie Taymor, who wanted to be free of the people taking shots at her show, especially via Twitter and Facebook and blogging, which Shakespeare did not have to put up with.

"It’s very hard to create, it’s incredibly difficult to be under a shot glass and a microscope like that...

"When you’re trying to create new work and you’re trying to break new ground and experiment, which seems an incredibly crazy thing to do in a Broadway environment, the immediate answers that audiences give are never going to be good...

"It’s just in the nature of things that when you’re doing something very new, audiences don’t know how necessarily to talk about it immediately..."

How does she imagine Shakespeare worked?