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24 Aug 2014: Simon Garfield makes a convincing case for why letter-writing still matters in the digital age, writes Anita Sethi -
14 Aug 2014:
Mark Lawson: Current shows The Importance of Being Earnest and The Play That Goes Wrong use the conceit of provincial players biting off more than they can chew. It's an idea with a venerable history
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29 Jul 2014:
From Mrs Malaprop to Lothario to the Grinch, some characters leap out of the pages of fiction and into the dictionary. Here are some of the best
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20 Jul 2014:
John Gorick is a beguiling Wilde in a smart play that reveals the establishment at its worst, writes Susannah Clapp
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17 Jul 2014: If it stripped away the daft framing, this hapless staging could capture Wilde's deft commentary on class, money, marriage and morals, writes Michael Billington
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24 Jun 2014:
Oscar Wilde, George Orwell and Nabokov all had views on the beautiful game. As England head for the exit from the World Cup, console yourself with the wisdom of literature's parlour pundits
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29 May 2014:
Robert McCrum: AQA boss Andrew Hall says 'we can't please everyone' - but he might have done some basic homework before sitting the exam
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15 May 2014: From Brontë childhood writings to press coverage of Oscar Wilde's trial, 'greatest literary treasures' put online in what will be the largest digital English literature resource
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13 May 2014:
A copy of The Importance of Being Earnest, inscribed by the author to the man who allowed him access to books, expected to fetch thousands
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23 Apr 2014: Much has dated in Oscar Wilde's 1895 political melodrama, but his treatment of marital politics still stings today, writes Helen Meany
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11 Apr 2014:
Poirot star will appear in a revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Adrian Noble
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24 Mar 2014:
Wilde's brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty and corruption was greeted with howls of protest on publication, writes Robert McCrum
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13 Feb 2014:
peace_love_books : 'Although the mannered society of the late 1800s may seem far removed from that of today, I was struck by the similarities
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27 Jan 2014:
Coleridge's meditation on the soul moves swiftly from the butterfly's exalted state to the mundane misery of the caterpillar
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11 Dec 2013:
Top spot for Alan Bennett's play about schoolboys studying for Oxbridge entrance exams followed by Noises Off and Hamlet
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