The Importance of Being Earnest: a guide for first-timers If you’ve never read or seen The Importance of Being Earnest, you’re in for one of the great theatrical pleasures. Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy is a play that makes everything look effortless — the wit flows so naturally, the plot spins so elegantly, and the […]
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Why Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare’s funniest play Ask people to name a Shakespeare comedy and you’ll most often get A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or perhaps Twelfth Night. Much Ado About Nothing tends to be the answer of people who’ve actually seen it performed — because once you’ve watched it done well, it lodges
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Treasure Island: the story behind the story There are books that feel as if they’ve always existed — as if no one actually wrote them, but they simply arrived in the world fully formed, inevitable and complete. Treasure Island is one of those books. Its characters are so vivid, its story so compulsively readable, its
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