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The Play's The Thing

Judith Flanders HISTORY PLAY: THE LIVES AND AFTERLIVES OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE by Rodney Bolt Harp erCollins, £17.99, pp, 416, ISBN 0007121237 (t £15.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800......

Madness And Death In Korea

Francis King THE RED QUEEN by Margaret Drabble Viking, £16.99, pp, 357, ISBN 0670915238 (t £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T his diptych of a novel starts with a surprise.......