The little white attic

 1/ When asked whether we know a writer if we only read them in translation, I suppose most people would say either yes or no. I think it de...

1/ A Shakespeare fan never runs out of things to read.  I’ve been enjoying If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation ...

I read both plays in the translations by Samuel Solomon, who used the Latin names (Andromache, Orestes, Cephisa, Berenice, Paulinus…) rather...

There was a time when pretty much all I read was novels and short stories; the plays I knew were those assigned at school or university. The...

1/ Wouldn’t you agree it’s a good idea that I, instead of going straight from Molière (1622–1673) to his contemporary Racine (1639–1699), re...