Much literature and drama would conceivably have proved entirely unengaging, would have said nothing to us had we first encountered its subject matter over breakfast in the form of news-in-brief. Tragic end for Verona lovebirds: after mistakenly thinking his sweetheart dead, a young man took his life. Having discovered the fate of her lover, the woman killed herself in turn. A young mother threw herself under a train and died in Russia after domestic problems. A young mother took arsenic and died in a French provincial town after domestic problems.
