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Friday, October 28, 2016

How close were Marlowe and Shakespeare? by John Dugdale

The editors of the Oxford Complete Shakespeare believe Christopher Marlowe collaborated on the three Henry VII plays … but are they right?By crediting Christopher Marlowe this week as the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM
Friday, March 14, 2014

Their type? The writers who fell for film stars by John Dugdale

From Siegfried Sassoon and Ivor Novello to Gore Vidal and Fred Astaire, a surprisingly large number of writers have paired off with film starsOn Monday, a raunchy letter from Ernest Hemingwa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AM
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Fictional hacks – from Maupassant to Larsson by John Dugdale

Journalists have been glamorous social climbers and bumbling fools in fiction – sometimes they've even been feminists and righters of wrongsJournalism is a glamorous trade in Guy de Maupas…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AM
Monday, January 10, 2011

My media: Steve Punt by John Dugdale

The comedian and star of Radio 4's The Now Show says he will read almost anything – but not the same paper every dayNewspapers I'll read any newspaper; I find it quite frightening that, st…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59AM
Friday, December 10, 2010

Celebrity memoirs for Christmas - review by John Dugdale

John Dugdale discerns some palpable hits among the dudsLast year's showbiz autobiographies brought the genre into disrepute: the public sensibly shunned insipid efforts from TV stars they we…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM

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