As the RSC's heroines season continues, explore theatre's tradition of wisecracking, swashbuckling, roaring girlsThere isn't a surviving copy of the 1590 first edition of The Life of Long Meg of Westminster because, judging by a reprint, the cheap chapbooks must have been read, like comics, until they disintegrated. Which seems right, given that the publication is a graphic novel without pictures. Across 18 short cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59AM on May 24, 2014