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Anyone for Tennyson?
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The Independent - London
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February 9, 1995
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At one point in Dark Glory, Steve Gooch's new play about the
early life of Tennyson, the poet's sister Emmie challenges him with
the question, "Who was it who said, `There lives more faith in
honest doubt'?" Tennyson can have no doubts, honest or otherwise,
about the answer: "I did," he correctly replies. It's rather as
though, in a play about Einstein, someone were to wag an arch
finger at the shock-haired genius and ask: "e = mc2, ring any
bells, Alfie?"
Putting a famous life on stage is fraught with such pitfalls,
hindsight giving a contrived or ridiculous look to situations that
would have been quite unremarkable at the time. Dark Glory doesn't
always avoid these snares. But then, in ...
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