Review
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by Brian Nelson
by Felicity Chaplin •
How to Lose a War: The story of America’s intervention in Afghanistan by Amin Saikal
by Ian Parmeter •
People Power: How Australian referendums are lost and won by George Williams and David Hume
by Anne Twomey •
The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy by Eric Beecher
Watching the denouement of Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet, I was reminded of David Edgar’s 1980 stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Ensconced within the travelling theatrical company of Mr Vincent Crummles, Nicholas and his hapless companion Smike are cast in a production of Romeo and Juliet, Smike as the apothecary and Nicholas (of course) as Romeo.
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