Author: Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
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Abbott, Steve, The Proof Stage: How Theatre Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics
Steve Abbott, The Proof Stage: How Theatre Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023) 396 pp. $35.00/£30.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780691206080 Near the middle of The Proof Stage, his absorbing new book on mathematics and theatre, Steve Abbott gives an account of Samuel Beckett’s strange, wordless play Quad (1981): ‘…there is no…
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Paul, Harry W., Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947: Medicine and Theater
Harry W. Paul, Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947: Medicine and Theater (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 322 pp. £70 hb. ISBN 978-1-4094-0515-3. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) As the subtitle of this meticulously researched biography indicates, there was much more to the Rothschilds than wine and banking. Henri de Rothschild, the great-grandson of the…
