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Given the Dickens I’ve Known

Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives?  Who in the last 30 years?  Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language.  It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The School for Scandal – Richard B Sheridan

The School for Scandal, written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre, on May 8, 1777.    Sheridan was a renown Irish satirist, playwright and poet.  He is buried at Poet’s Corner in Westminster … Continue reading

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