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The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! review " madcap Flaubert farce falls flat by Lyn Gardner

Liverpool EverymanFlaubert's dry comic observations are replaced with full-on slapstick in a show that inserts dinosaur costumes and some awkward metatheatrical banter Julian Barnes described Flaubert's 19th-century classic as "the first great shopping and fucking novel". Both activities get its heroine, the beautiful, discontented Emma Bovary, into trouble. Married to a dull doctor, and mouldering away in the countr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM on February 11, 2016

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