Greg Garrett

Sympathy for literature’s least heroic characters

Spare a thought for Monsieur Bovary, permanently in Emma’s shadow, and for Queen Gertrude, driven to drink poison by the taunts of her mad son Hamlet

issue 31 August 2019
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