From Cleopatra to Volumnia, Shakespeare wrote some glorious roles for female actors, but blokes get many of the best lines " and, in contemporary drama, still do Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ("In the middle of the road of my life"). Dante's tolling words in the Divina Commedia echo in this old head as they never could before. I'm already past the middle of the road of my life, and have thus had a little time t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM on June 4, 2018