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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20020508
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Byline: John Slim

There is indeed a rich field to be mined if anybody cares to get down seriously to sorting out the solecisms among the classics of English theatre.

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago the linguistic horrors that had hit me in The Merchant of Venice - two of them - and The Railway Children. I have now ascertained that Oliver Goldsmith was not beyond reproach, either - although he may have an excuse, not to say a very good reason.

The excellent production of She Stoops to Conquer which the Lapworth Players presented at the village hall last week had Mrs ...

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