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1 Which Shakespeare tragedy inspired Toni Morrison to write the play Desdemona?2 What marine creature is the heaviest-known animal to have existed?3 The 1983 film Scarface is mainly set in which city
Olivia Cooke: I hope people wouldn't tune into a TV drama 'just to watch sex' The British star on how ITV's Vanity Fair was bound to fail – and why her Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, makes her 'nervous' 7 March 2021 • 5:00am 'I've read the script, and it has changed a lot from the first few seasons': Olivia Cooke will star in the new Game of Thrones prequel Credit: Amy Sussman/Invision/AP Olivia Cooke is proof that it’s not only posh actors who make it these days. The 27-year-old is the daughter of a police officer and a sales rep, went to state school in Oldham, left bef...
Some time after the restoration of King Charles II in 1660, an enterprising gentleman, his name lost to history, leased fields on the far south-western fringes of London in order to establish a tavern and beer garden. The land was owned by Jane Vaux, a widow whose husband’s family gave the area its name. By 1732, the gardens had been through several incarnations, transformed into a world of magic, artifice and wonder. Between May and September, thousands of Londoners converged on Vauxhall every evening, having saved a shilling for entrance, much more if they wanted to buy the exorbitantly-p...
How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/t-magazine/edith-wharton-custom-of-the-country.html The British Royal Family Sections How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? Published in 1913, “The Custom of the Country” follows the social rise of Undine Spragg, a fictional character who, in many ways, feels very modern. An undated photograph of Edith Wharton.Credit...Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University This essay is part of T’s (1913), like much that Edith Wharton wrote, can be described as a novel of manners. That’s to say...
On Christmas Day, many families sat down after dinner and put on Bridgerton, which had just dropped on Netflix, expecting a typical period drama. Then, barely two minutes in... there's explicit outdoor sex. Over the course of the very sexy, entertaining season, we got to know all about the Bridgertons, the Featheringtons,the truth (sort of) behind Lady Whistledown, and much more. Now, while we await the inevitable second season, Rory Cashin counts down the best scandal-laden dramas to watch next... 12 DOWNTON ABBEY Let us get the obvious right out of the way, shall we? There are some very cle...