36 stories by "Alison Flood"
Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all
Tony Harrison, the award-winning poet and d…
Scholar Molly Yarn identifies more than 60 women who have contributed to the history of the Bard's works, and believes there are still more to find
Reviewing Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke's…
Installation inspired by The Happy Prince will be accompanied by similar celebration of Samuel Beckett, who like Wilde was educated in the town
In The Happy Prince, one of Oscar Wilde's most…
New show uncovers a long tradition for princes of Wales to excuse their own behaviour by comparing it to Prince Hal's
From Frederick in the early 18th century to Charles in our own, a series…
Writer's attempts to stay 'invisible' while marrying Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil will be explored in monologues by well-known authors and actors
Sixty years ago, in 1961, Samuel Beckett slip…
As parts of the UK enter another month " at least " of being stuck indoors, our critics pick out top music, games, books, TV, dance and art fixes to lift your spirits
Part two: film, comedy,…
On Connection, which draws on their life struggles and creative joys, was written 'for others who don't fit'
Kae Tempest: what I have learned from 20 years on the mic
The award-winning poet…
Papers revealing the Swedish Academy's deliberations over the Waiting for Godot author reveal fierce disputes over his 'nihilism'
Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for lit…
Newly released papers show the committee chairman's doubts in 1968 whether a prize for the Irish author would be in the spirit of the awardSamuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature i…
Newly found documents in the National Archives show the playwright's father John was harassed by Crown informers, which may have influenced his attitude to power and classLong-forgotten docu…
Lawyers for the late novelist, and for producers of Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation, have agreed a deal that will allow the show to open in DecemberAaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of To Kill…
An overseas buyer was prevented from purchasing the 1640 book after the UK government intervened, allowing the University of Edinburgh to buy the 'extraordinary' collectionGiving a rare insi…
Estate alleges Aaron Sorkin's script breaches undertakings to stay faithful to Lee's novel, altering characters including Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson and Scout FinchThe estate of Harper Lee …
Notes made on a 16th-century manuscript, thought to have been an inspiration for the play, could have been the Bard's own, says John CassonAnnotations in the margins of a 16th-century text t…
The British Library's digital archive reveals early objections to Samuel Beckett's play alongside other records of classic works' early livesToday, Waiting for Godot is the most celebrated o…
The University of Southern California's decision to spell the Bard's name as 'Shakespear' sparks some gentle joshing " but is it wrong?Amid other, far uglier confrontations around statues in…
Australian academic David McInnis claims literary bias by first editors of OED has credited Shakespeare with inventing phrases in common Elizabethan useShakespeare did not coin phrases such …
Extract from The Antelopes by Wallander author " who spent years in Mozambique " published in Index on CensorshipA play by Henning Mankell about a Swedish couple struggling to understand the…
The Windham-Campbell prizes, whose recipients are unaware they are in contention until they have won, were announced on Tuesday morningThe British novelist Tessa Hadley and the Irish playwri…
The Death and the Maiden playwright was inspired on his wedding day, in 1966, to note the 'seed' of a story about music as a form of resistance, now in printOn his wedding day on 7 January 1…
RL Stine's bestselling children's horror stories will be presented in abandoned railway tunnels beneath Waterloo station in LondonFeaturing everything from the deadly camera of Say Cheese an…
Twixt Cup and Lip, an early work by the future Nobel prizewinner unseen until now, appears in the Strand magazineAn early play by a young William Faulkner, in which an author better known fo…
A Cambridge academic claims to have found the first use of a 'brilliant innovation' that has endured as a mark of incomplete speechOne of the earliest examples of the ellipsis, that tantalis…
Writer tells audience at a Cambridge University lecture that current system is 'both wrong and a waste'Alan Bennett has blasted the private school education system in a hard-hitting lecture …
The storyline is ridiculous, but the glorious melodrama of Les Mis will leave you in tears. And the songs couldn't be more rousingI knew the songs of Les Misérables off by heart well …
