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...At first blandly courteous and self-effacing, this pound-shop King Lear quickly ditches his veneer of civility and goads his five sons towards a climactic street fight....
...all-round celeb) “The man with the Midas touch” Pygmalion — by George Bernard Shaw Edward Lear (“The Owl and the Pussy-cat”) Wenceslas Square...
..., when Shakespeare wrote King Lear, placing this sublime creative act within its historical and social context: the gunpowder plot, plague and fears of witchcraft....
...Olwen Fouéré, however, has good reason for this, as riverrun is an adaptation from James Joyce’s polyglot punfest Finnegans Wake....
...DH Lawrence’s poetry, James Joyce’s stream of consciousness, people who spiel like Billy Connolly, absurdist poets like Edward Lear, French surrealists like Benjamin Péret and, in my adult poems, very much...
...(I also loved James Joyce, who seemed to me the heir to Dickens word-inebriation). I’d had enough of Leavis’s beetle-browed prohibitions....
...Flann O’Brien, James Joyce, Graham Greene, Jean Genet. Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with? I was stuck in a lift once with Marlon Brando. He asked me to his house....
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