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The Cummerbund: a Colonial Poem?

Posted by Marco on June 12th, 2004

Khademul Islam reviews the “Hobson-Jobson, A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words or Phrases and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical Geographical and Discursive” and sketches a post-colonial reading of Lear’s poem, but does not reccomend it as “It will so spoil the fun!”

Snappy Dance evokes Gorey terror, wonder

Posted by Marco on June 7th, 2004

The Boston Herald reviews Snappy’s ballet inspired by E. Gorey’s works

Undoing Disney

Posted by Marco on June 5th, 2004

Theater in the Open debuts Maudslay season with a performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Gorey Ballet

Posted by Marco on June 5th, 2004

Snappy Dance Theater premiere The Temperamental Wobble, a ballet based on Edward Gorey’s books

New Alice Book by Carroll, by R.J. Carter

Posted by Marco on June 4th, 2004

Telos is publishing a new Alice novel which picks up nine months after where Through the Looking Glass left

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys

Posted by Marco on June 2nd, 2004

An essay from the TLS on a book by Andrew Birkin

The Lear Macaw on the Brink of Extinction

Posted by Marco on June 2nd, 2004

A long-tailed blue parrot named after Edward Lear, the author of nonsense verse whose painting of a captive specimen led to the first description of the species