“... in its elements. In his very first two tragedies, Titus Andronicus is a father, and Romeo and Juliet are children. The long rich series of what may be formally Shakespeare’s own invention, the English History Plays, work in Henry IV, I and II to a climax that could be subtitled ‘Fathers and Sons’. Implicit in these Histories from the first is a ...”

“... alcohol is the leader of the three-man expedition.To boil the narrative down: a same-sex Romeo and Juliet intercut with a Caledonian Deliverance, unsettling adventure story set in the violent outdoors. Mungo’s older sister, Jodie, even calls him Romeo when she knows he’s seeing someone, while the boys have a recurrent quibble about which of them is the ...”

“... his analyst thinks of him will be intense: as if Romeo, in the midst of pouring out his heart to Juliet, should get wind of the fact that his loved one is just an actress doing her job. I have a postcard of a German cartoon called ‘Beweise es’ or ‘Prove it,’ in which a small mouse confronts an enormous, predatory black cat. The cat, with a sinister ...”

“... to me); recognise its stubbornness once it has been locked in place (what the feminist Juliet Mitchell has described as the heavy undertow, the drag of sexual difference); insist that sexual harassment is unacceptable and must cease. Holding these apparently contradictory ideas in mind at the same time, moving on more than one front: for me this ...”

“... Hamnett and Dorothy Varda, another model, both of them self-destructive; a fling with the artist Juliet O’Rourke, wife of a modernist architect; a tumble in the afternoon with the Irish writer Mary Manning; a ‘great passion’ for Marion Coates, wife of another architect, before his wedding to Violet Pakenham, sixth daughter of a Longford earl. All these ...”

“... three acknowledged illegitimate children. ‘I wonder what Lady Wilde thought of her husband?’ John Butler Yeats wrote to his son in 1921. ‘When she was Miss Elgee, Mrs Butt found her with her husband when her circumstances were not doubtful, and told my mother about it – so that she could afford to be wise and tolerant.’ (Mrs Butt’s husband was ...”

“... finding the process a boring hindrance rather than an opportunity. I spoke to one woman, Juliet Rawlings, who had been a tenant member of an earlier incarnation of the TMO, via an involvement in the residents’ association. She thought it was a good idea to have an organisation in the borough that would run the housing stock. ‘The council were ...”