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Merve Emre writes about Margaret Cavendish, the seventeenth-century natural philosopher, autobiographer, and fiction writer who is the subject of “Pure Wit,” a new biography by Francesca Peacock.
QUESTION What is the story of Peter Scott, the man who taught the Duke of Edinburgh to fly?
Plagiarism, a sin generally associated with under-performing undergraduates, has suddenly hit the academic elite.
Philip Hedley, who has died aged 85, was a protégé of Joan Littlewood, the radical founder of Theatre Workshop, a collective that toured shows aimed at working-class audiences and led an extraordinary revolution in British theatre in the 1950s when it took up residence at the Theatre Royal in Stratford, east London.
The actor’s suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots