Mathew Lyons

What Shakespeare meant to the Bloomsbury Group

Virginia Woolf’s mind was ‘agape & red & hot’ when reading him, and he was an everyday companion to most of the Group – but what they couldn’t bear was to see the plays acted

Virginia Woolf in London in 1939. [Gisele Freund/ Photo Researchers History/Getty Images]  
issue 06 January 2024

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