My review of 'The Black Prince' (1973) by Iris Murdoch for #ReadingTheTheatre and #IrisMurdoch26. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/bp/
Passion’s slave: #ReadingTheTheatre
‘Melencolia I’ by Albrecht Dürer (1514). The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch. Penguin Books, 1975 (1973). … blest are those Whose blood and judgement are so well comeddled, That they…
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April 30, 2026 at 11:30 AM
My review of 'The Black Prince' (1973) by Iris Murdoch for #ReadingTheTheatre and #IrisMurdoch26. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/bp/
'A Doll’s House' (1879) by Henrik Ibsen: my review of 'Et dukkehjem' for #ReadingTheTheatre. #Booksky
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Games of Let’s Pretend: #ReadingTheTheatre
Dolls house 1894. A Doll’s House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen. Et dukkehjem translated by Kenneth McLeish (1994), in Three Plays: A Doll’s House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler, introduced and translated…
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April 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM
'A Doll’s House' (1879) by Henrik Ibsen: my review of 'Et dukkehjem' for #ReadingTheTheatre. #Booksky
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My discussion for #ReadingTheTheatre of ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream‘ (1982)
and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (1982), short stories by Angela Carter in her 1985 collection, Black Venus. #Booksky
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and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (1982), short stories by Angela Carter in her 1985 collection, Black Venus. #Booksky
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Dramatic tales: #ReadingTheTheatre
Theatrum Orbi: second Globe Theatre (1614) by Robert Fludd. ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1982) and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (1982)by Ange…
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April 25, 2026 at 8:07 AM
My discussion for #ReadingTheTheatre of ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream‘ (1982)
and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (1982), short stories by Angela Carter in her 1985 collection, Black Venus. #Booksky
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and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (1982), short stories by Angela Carter in her 1985 collection, Black Venus. #Booksky
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#BookSky
Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Bookwise 2025/4
‘Decadent Youth’ (1899) by Ramon Casas. This month my post ‘Why do I read?’ stimulated some fascinating discussion, though luckily nobody saw it indulgent or even, as in the…
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April 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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#ReadingTheTheatre
Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two' (2016) by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. #BookSky
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Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two' (2016) by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. #BookSky
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Pain comes again: #ReadingTheTheatre
© C A Lovegrove. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. Sphere / Little, Brown, 2017 (2016). “Harry, there is never a perfect answe…
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April 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#ReadingTheTheatre
Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two' (2016) by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. #BookSky
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Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two' (2016) by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. #BookSky
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To celebrate #ShalespeareDay and #WorldBookDay, 'A Vorpal Blade: my review of 'Shakespeare’s Sword' by Alan Judd.
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A vorpal blade: #ReadingTheTheatre
Antiques shop window, Rye, Sussex © C A Lovegrove. Shakespeare’s Sword by Alan Judd. Simon and Schuster, 2019 (2018). ‘One, two! One, two! And through and through | The vorpal blade wen…
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April 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
To celebrate #ShalespeareDay and #WorldBookDay, 'A Vorpal Blade: my review of 'Shakespeare’s Sword' by Alan Judd.
#BookSky
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#BookSky
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April is a good month to read fiction, biographies, playscripts and studies about theatre, drama and those who tread the boards.
#ReadingTheTheatre
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#ReadingTheTheatre
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The stage is set: #ReadingTheTheatre
© C A Lovegrove. Every April – the month in which Shakespeare was both born and died – I try to read at least one book which involves theatrical matters before reviewing it. It might for example be…
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April 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
April is a good month to read fiction, biographies, playscripts and studies about theatre, drama and those who tread the boards.
#ReadingTheTheatre
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#ReadingTheTheatre
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"Mischiefs feed like beasts": review of 'Volpone, or The Foxe: A Comedie' by Ben Jonson for #ReadingTheTheatre. wp.me/p2oNj1-84R
Mischiefs feed like beasts
Doorknocker © C A Lovegrove Volpone, [or The Foxe: A Comedie] by Ben Jonson (1606-7). Edited by Philip Brockbank. New Mermaids: A & C Black / W W Norton & Company, 1989 (1969). 'Riches, the dumb god, ...
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April 24, 2024 at 8:44 AM
"Mischiefs feed like beasts": review of 'Volpone, or The Foxe: A Comedie' by Ben Jonson for #ReadingTheTheatre. wp.me/p2oNj1-84R
Magic Flutes by #EvaIbbotson.
Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009).
#ReadingTheTheatre
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Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009).
#ReadingTheTheatre
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A fearful thing: #ReadingTheTheatre
© C A Lovegrove. Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson. Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009).Young Picador, 2008 (1982). 'I believed it. I believed it all,' said Tessa. 'That you served music, all of yo...
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April 12, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Magic Flutes by #EvaIbbotson.
Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009).
#ReadingTheTheatre
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Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009).
#ReadingTheTheatre
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Reading the Theatre: Three Performance Memoirs
Thanks to reminders from Constance of Staircase Wit and Chris of Calmgrove Books, I’m reviving my Reading the Theatre project for another year – and if anyone else would like to join in…
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April 23, 2026 at 10:09 AM