GORDON PARSONS admires a version of Marlowe’s grim tragedy that strips it down to its gay essentials
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Hammering home the reality of the pickle into which we have been summarily purloined by a cabal of crooks, liars and thieves, writes Tom King
When Cassy’s father fails to connect with his daughter — and misses out on
an evening in the Bitter End — a stranger’s self-mocking charm brings seething resentment.
The Bard encounters Laibach’s revival of their 1987 album Opus Dei, and is stirred to verse
ANDREW MURRAY is compelled by the moment of revolution in British history when Parliament had political intimacy with society
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SHAKESPEARE apparently made the most of plague-induced quarantine to write King Lear, which certainly puts my own productivity these past nine months into rather dire perspective.
Nor is it helped by Martin Rowson, irreverent cartoonist and jobbing poet, who took the opportunity over lockdown to pen an almost-daily torrent of stanzas in which he cast his impudent, ribald, deeply unsentimental gaze over the unfolding catastrophe.
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