NAPOLEON’S PLUNDER AND THE THEFT OF VERONESE’S FEAST by Cynthia Saltzman (Thames & Hudson). Napoleon transformed a former palace of French kings into the greatest museum in the world by looting on ...
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (BBC iPlayer). The Hollywood 1940 Greer Garson-Laurence Olivier version is not for admirers of the novel. It doesn’t look like Jane Austen. It doesn’t feel like Jane Austen. It doe ...
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In the 1980s, BBC Radio 3 commissioned a whole series of monologues from the British playwright Peter Barnes (1931-2004), author of The Ruling Classes (1968, later filmed with Peter O’Toole) and Leona ...
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George Bernard Shaw wrote Caesar and Cleopatra in 1898 and modelled it on the then-fashionable pseudo-historical dramas of the day. It was conceived on the grand scale as a spectacular production for ...
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