Charlotte Bronte based Jane Eyre on her own dark passions, dreams, frustrations and rebellion against a lonely and monotonous life. Her novel has all the ingredients of a popular romantic Gothic melod ...
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Back in 2016 it’s likely the best 200th-birthday present Charlotte Bronte had was the world premiere performance by Northern Ballet, in Yorkshire, of her intense Gothic drama Jane Eyre. Combinin ...
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The cellist is Jacqueline du Pre (1945-1987) who made her debut at 16 and quickly established an international reputation. Her career as a player stopped in 1973 with the onset of multiple sclerosis. ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Victoria at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 The first play to be written about Victoria, Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1934, was not publicly performed until 1937 because the ...
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