Are you like George III? Has each of us a little of George III lurking inside? Judging by the wild applause and shouts of ‘rubbish’, many of us have. The work struck home with some, at least. Some said that it was a shame to hold the old boy up to ridicule; for others he was not a historical person but an element of the human psyche placed in a historical setting, a Beckett clown whose words and actions have less meaning as a historical person's than they do as a multi-level poetic-psychological fantasy.