“Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.”
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Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
