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...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...simmering conflict between Muslim and Christian powers on land and sea resolved into a stand-off between Suleyman — heir to his father Selim I’s string of conquests — and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V,...
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd...
...(Boyd is a trustee of Stanfield’s charity, the Hebridean Trust, which supports island communities)....
...The former involved Boyd contributing to the V&A’s Pink Floyd exhibition — he was the first to promote the group at the pioneering psychedelic UFO club he co-founded, then produced their debut single — alongside...
...In It’s Complicated, Boyd writes, “Teens turn to, and are obsessed with, whichever environment allows them to connect to friends....
...Gus has summoned his adult children — nicknamed Pill (Richard Clothier), Empty (Tamsin Greig) and V (Lex Shrapnel) — to tell them he intends to take his own life....
...Specifically, Mr Aspden quotes the American music producer, Joe Boyd, as stating about the American popular singer, Bob Dylan: “Like the Acmeist poets in Russia in the 1920s, [Dylan] confused and frightened...
...columns, visit ft.com/culturecast ——————————————- Letters in response to this column: Acmeists’ aloofness aroused suspicion / From Dr Mark Gaige Fear of Acmeists hard to understand / From Dr Charles G V...
...And the clock is ticking. ——————————————- Dementia: science v demography Guessing whether you will need long-term care is even harder than trying to estimate how long you will live....
...In the case, known as Comcast v....
...Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, by Sylvia Nasar ● No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone , by Tom Bower ● Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty , by Abhijit V....
...And in that respect it was helpful writing for the RSC, because you look at the Shakespeare plays and say: ‘Well, he didn’t know Henry V.’” She adds that writing for the RSC ensemble helps....
...map behind them – each one representing a ship’s crew of thousands – it becomes clear that their subtle arguments about Vikings and valour are tragically out of touch, more suited to the world of Henry V...
...In 2007, under current artistic director Michael Boyd, the RSC returned to the idea of mounting the entire history play cycle, in The Histories....
...That photograph of Elvis in ecstasy was taken by William V....
...Fact v fantasy: How farfetched is it? “If you believe in spooks, clap your hands.”...
...However, this has not been tested in court and Cowan v Scargill continues to act as a powerful deterrent....
...This may well be my greatest single criticism about the second tetralogy of Michael Boyd’s RSC production of Shakespeare’s history plays....
...Henry V, he says, “is a great, complex, fragmented, modern character. A dress rehearsal for Hamlet.”...
...And that is what Michael Boyd bids us do, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s mighty endeavour of playing all Shakespeare’s history plays back to back....
...With this production, the RSC’s artistic director Michael Boyd completes his grand projet of staging Shakespeare’s entire (accidentally accreted) Plantagenet history cycle with the same ensemble of actors...
...Slinger was lauded for his performance in the title role of Richard III, the chronological end of Shakespeare’s eight-play history cycle in production by Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd...
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