Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's friendly (or so we hope) rival among the great Jacobean playwrights, once wrote disdainfully of authors who "beget Tales, Tempests, and suchlike drolleries" and thereby "make Nature afraid." Both of those unnatural drolleries, the Tale and the Tempest, are here to offset the heat wave with their wintry narrative and stormy weather. ...
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:00PM on July 4, 2011