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The Life of Wallis Simpson. Kelly is good on the fashions, sounds and smells of Georgian London and if the book smells of greasepaint it is because much of it was written, as the author admits, in a theatre dressing room. For instance, it is now widely acknowledged that professional boxers can suffer neurological disorders years after their bouts in the ring.
This is a stunningly good and long overdue biography of a man largely forgotten today. Why he has been out of the limelight for so long remains a puzzle. His plays may be conceived as dated, yet Kelly makes the case that they are important for the way they ridiculed vanity and class pretension.
But his real claims on posterity come from his courageous refusal to bow to convention or artistic safety, which, in the end, destroyed him. It is this trait that commands our attention, Kelly insists. It is hard to think of anyone who could have written his life story with greater sympathy, understanding of his talent and the difficulties he faced.
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He had an early failed marriage, was sent down from Oxford for among other things a bizarre practical joke at the expense of the Provost of his college, and became a flamboyant personality in London coffee house society. He was a comic actor, good at impersonation; a playwright, famed for his satire; and an impresario at the Haymarket Theatre itself, adept at evading the licensing and censorship law of the time. Another strange practical joke at the hands of royalty costs him his leg — and eventually, perhaps, his reason.
A savage satire on a celebrity Duchess landed them both in court, her charged with bigamy and him with sodomy. The other actors in the play are great too.
There are many jokes and insights? There is much Shakespearean stuff.
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There are comments on the role of the press ostensibly in the 18 th century, but also of today. At first I thought they were speaking too quickly for me to catch it all but then either they slowed down or I caught up, and all became well. As has been our experience at the Haymarket before, our seats were upgraded. Acceptable - Very well read.
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