A Reader’s Diary, 27 August 2014
A footnote in one book led me to buy another, an obscure seventeenth century publication known as The Overburian Characters. Most of us know Elizabethan and Jacobean literature for its … Continue reading
August 27, 2014 · Leave a comment
Modern theatre’s debt to Ben Jonson
Comedies are not easy to read. In tragedy words are everything, in comedy it is the action, the way the characters interact, that matters. Every comedian knows that the laugh … Continue reading
February 5, 2014 · Leave a comment
