The Chinese language only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one, suggests JANET DAVEY
Dusting off a Shakespearan fairy tale
GORDON PARSONS applauds a production which turns a Jacobean obscurity into a dreamlike journey

Pericles
The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
THIS fairy tale for adults, thought to have been only partially Shakespeare’s work, is relatively rarely produced today on the modern stage. It did not even appear in the First Folio, the Bard’s Bible. Yet it was apparently very popular in its own day.
Tamara Harvey’s new production for the RSC should serve to resurrect its popularity.
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