Wise Children
Dora and Nora Chance, song-and-dance twins of seventy-five living south of the river in Brixton, are invited to their father's hundredth birthday party, held on the April day they were born and Shakespeare was born and died. Melchior Hazard, last of the great actor-managers, has never acknowledged them, and the account of how they got their name, their careers and their one calamitous Hollywood season filming a Midsummer Night's Dream comes out over a single day of getting ready. Angela Carter's last novel, written while she was dying, and the one that sets the whole illegitimate music-hall line of English comedy against the legitimate stage that shut it out.
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- alludes to ↑ A Midsummer Night's Dream
- alludes to ↑ The Merchant of Venice
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