As an intern, Benjamin should be seeking to follow, but he’s a young swaggerer and, of course, also unsure of himself.

But genre playwrights of the era, starting with Thomases Heywood, Middleton and Dekker, regularly pinched Meg's most famous scene – the fight with a misogynist swaggerer.

Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence.