Mayhem and merr y meetings

The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the ...

200 years of Dickens on stage and screen

THE man tapped the tip of his quill pen on the table impatiently, but the words still refused to come. There was a hesitant tap at the door. “Yes?” His voice crackled with impatience. “If you please,

TRICKS LITERARY ILLUSIONS Performance magic and Victorian ...

On a grim weekend this April, I made the trip to Helsingør, on Denmark’s Øresund strait. William Shakespeare never did so, but in 1586 three actors who would become his colleagues in the Lord Chamberl

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early ...