The playwright has put up with my running commentary for 40 years. But no one else so tenaciously exposes society's frailtyI'm currently reading Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil, which offers a staggeringly vivid picture of the Victorian gulf between rich and poor. It was one of a number of works in the 1840s dubbed "condition of England" novels, and I was thinking how well the term could be applied to the plays of David Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:38AM on January 31, 2012