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Steer clear of the beer before Stratford's new Julius Caesar

Prospective visitors to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Julius Caesar, which I review enthusiastically today on our arts pages, are advised to stay out of the Dirty Duck beforehand — or, at any rate, steer clear of the beer. Unusually for a work of its length, the play is performed without an interval. That means legs crossed for two hours and 15 minutes for anyone who starts out in need of a loo. read more
Probing a murder by Worcester College's famous lake

‘It is unusual for [Anthony Trollope] to use a real place name for the action of his fiction, as he does in Old Man’s Love,” writes John Sutherland in one of his explanatory notes supplied in the Oxford University Press’s World Classics edition of the novel. read more
Martin Amis peddles a dangerous myth

You might have supposed that Martin Amis’s enthusiasm for smoking would have diminished following the well-publicised death of his perpetually puffing best pal Christopher Hitchens. But there he was in the Sunday Times this week singing the praises of the weed and advancing the myth that it is conducive to creativity. read more

Archive - Wednesday, 13 June 2012