William Chamberlain

June 2006

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Having seen the production and then gone back to the text, it struck me that in many ways the poetic truth of the original play is the transformative power of dreams. However, this theme was almost entirely obscured in the production.

BooksTheatre
February 2004

The Master - (Man Booker Prize 2004, Longlist)

The Master deals with the life of Henry James, from the dramatic failure of his play Guy Domville through the creation of a string of masterpieces including The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove, and The Turn of the Screw.

Fiction

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Chinese whispers
Controversy at the London Book Fair, and Globe to Globe
8 May 2012

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