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Puffing

I am sorry to say it, people seem to go to the theatre principally for their entertainment!So complains Sneer in Sheridan’s The Critic, and if that’s what people want that’s …

Votes for Women

The play is clever and witty, and it kept the audiences brimming with excitement and in roars of laughter. So said the Pall Mall Gazette in 1909 of Cicely Hamilton’s …

A mote will turn the balance

When I was at school I had problems with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It wasn’t just the dull way it was taught in my school back in the day. Students …