Margot Heinemann was until recently a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge. She was one of the editors of Culture and Crisis in Britain in the Thirties, where she wrote a piece on John Cornford, and is the author of a study of Jacobean drama, Puritanism and Theatre.
Professor Crick’s subject is important and his research has evidently been diligent. We now know a lot more about Orwell than we did, and the increment of knowledge is not always trivial....
In Act II of Twelfth Night, Maria says of Malvolio – that poker-faced enemy of cakes and ale, bear-baitings, and all ‘uncivil rule’ – that ‘sometimes he is a kind of...
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