... Macmurrough (Ma- cushla). Moss (The Floral Dance), Murray (I'll walk beside you), Paul Rubens (I love the moon). Oley Speaks (Sylvia), or Amy Woodforde-Finden (Pale Hands I loved); and there are doubtless many more omissions. But of course, when ...

... was for many years the most powerful man in Hollywood, and raised as the archervpal Iewish princess, with no education to speak of and denied any company except that of prospective husbands. She was not even allowed to marry before her elder sister Edith ...

... Conference held at the Shakespeare Institute in 1984. This compression serves them well and they often carry the urgency of the speaking voice. Of particular interest, demonstrating how Shakespeare has entered the national consciousness in complex ways, is Jonathan ...

... yet fails to answer this fundamental question of why the male impersonator fell out of fashion. Nor does Maitland's socio-speak help towards an understanding of the subject in general or its high-priestess in par ticular. This short book 148 pages ...

... Rybalka. Trans, by Frank Jetlinek (Quartet Books. £6.50) The influence of Jean Paul Sartre upon the theatre of the English-speaking world has been less than upon its literature and philosophical development Yet a great deal of his most profound work has ...

... alive and kicking high; though its name has been in part superseded by musi cal or musical comedy. In French; and German-speaking countries, it is still highly popular under it original name, as witness the two books under review. Both are essentially ...

... she wanted to drive the hard est bargain possible. She sometimes quotes with derision the absurd dia logue she was made to speak, and in jewellers' shops quotes a line from an early film in which her beloved advised her to remove her diamond earrings: ...

... career. But the Burns style has been so sharply honed that it has a freshness that is completely absorbing. He writes as he speaks, with wit, clarity and kindliness. Peter Hepple The Social and Religious Plays of Strindberg. By John Ward. (The Athlone Press ...

... seriousness. I remember, in your Hamlet and in your Lear, your searching for truths about man's condition and your wish to speak through your art about one subject only: about humanity no more, no less. That is the subject of this engrossing book; a deeply ...

... Swinging Sixties rock star, disintegrating through drink and Nameless Pain, and ail that entails, or should I say entrails. And speaking of entrails, OLD FLAMES by E. A. Whitehead must set some kind of record in obscene words to the square inch. Also from Faber ...

... which make Olivier great, and the human smrv the latter accomplished with a com mendable absence of gush and slush. People Speaking; Phoenetic Readings in Current English by 1. Windsor Lewis. (OLIP 1977 £1.90). Both this slim paperback and its companion ...

... to write a long text explaining just why this celebrated couple are really special in the world of dance, allows them to speak for themselves. For hours they talked into his tape recorder, then he transcribed and edited the result. This section of the ...