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...Now the Ustinov’s artistic director Laurence Boswell presents another Kehlmann play in a translation from the German by Christopher Hampton....
...Daniel Kehlmann’s play, translated from the German by Christopher Hampton, is a chic, sardonic little comedy about male ego, jealousy and the value of art....
...(The difference is that this production is helmed by the Ustinov’s artistic director Laurence Boswell.)...
...As the American writer Christopher Morley put it: “Maybe there was never anyone so young as Boswell was in the spring of 1763.”...
...Nor is the Boswell bon mot (already a cliché) the only remark that gets recycled....
...Laurence Boswell, artistic director of the Ustinov Studio in Bath, is out to change that....
...However, following publication of the unclassified sections of the report, Eric Boswell resigned as head of the bureau of diplomatic security, the state department said....
...According to this crude tripartite map, Samuel Johnson’s Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744) was the first true example of a form that ripened swiftly in 1791 with Boswell’s monumental study of Johnson himself...
...We were Boswells, not Johnsons. The basement classroom looked as if an avant-garde theatre company had designed a corporate training room....
...The historian John Boswell has written subtly about how the medieval church used celibacy to ally itself with “unnatural” styles of sexuality....
...Her translation of Swann’s Way won awards but it also attracted surprisingly harsh criticism, including a review from Christopher Hitchens, who felt it too “close” – overly literal or unpoetic....
...Goodbye to Berlin, in which “Herr Issyvoo” (Christopher Isherwood) does his “I am a Camera” on Sally Bowles (not her real name). 2....
...Christopher Columbus, Genoa’s most illustrious son, would be a customer. Given its origins, purpose and longevity, one would expect the Banco di San Giorgio to be more celebrated than it is....
...As Ian Watt showed in The Rise of the Novel, the Puritan habit of spiritual journal-writing survived the age of religious ferment, living on in the secular memoirs of such Puritan scions as Pepys, Boswell...
...The Portable Atheist Selected and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens Da Capo Press £10.99 After setting the non-believing cat among the devout pigeons in America, Christopher Hitchens compiles an...
...Christopher Hampton has said he wrote this 1976 drama after working on A Doll’s House....
...As James Boswell has it, “In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts keep jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange.”...
...Indeed, listed biographies were, according to the scholar of modern India and European empires, Christopher Bayly, “an important literary form in Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Hindustani, reaching their apogee...
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