I guess that's true. I've just found that I always prefer to to cut it myself. It gets me closer to the text before production and lets me tell exactly the story I want to tell.

How can it possibly be his 400th birthday and 400th anniversary of his death? Unless he died a newborn...

I’m confused...isn’t the reason that everybody does Shakespeare (aside from the fact that he's a poetical master) is that you don't need to buy the rights. He's 100% free. So is Kit Marlowe.