L’esprit de l’escalier

En route to the Hay Festival to talk about How the Classics made Shakespeare, I flick through the book and reflect on what I left out that I meant to put in, but never got around to, because delivery was late and I just had to get it done and move onto the next thing – all writers know that feeling. One of the points I made in the book is that when we talk about Shakespeare and the classics we immediately think of the Roman plays based on Plutarch, together with Titus Andronicus, but that in fac...