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Hedda Gabler as you have never seen her before

Hedda Gabler as you have never seen her before

Robert Tanitch reviews Hedda Gabler at National Theatre/Lyttelton Hedda, just married, returns from her honeymoon, bored out of her mind. She despises her husband, Tesman, whose academic career is goi ...
Books on Shakespeare

Books on Shakespeare

ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND UP OF BOOKS No 8 THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN by Roy Strong (Thames & Hudson £14.95). Do you know a bank where the wilde thyme grows? Are you as mad about rosemary, fe ...
Theatre books

Theatre books

Robert Tanitch reviews two books OLIVER! A Dickensian musical by Marc Napolitano (Oxford University Press, £22.99). Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular that they were staged instantly – sometimes ...