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This week's issue of the TLS

Is the theatrical scandal dead? Has it become impossible for a new play to shock a theatre audience for its own sake, rather than for directorial gimmickry? John Stokes considers the history of scandalous theatre - and the eclecticism of modern productions of the deeply scandalous Ibsen.

Arthur, Merlin and love magic "One might be forgiven for thinking that Chaucer was not fond of romance", Carolyne Larrington writes; but then romance for medieval writers and readers wasn't necessarily anything like its modern namesake.

Mavis Gallant's dreams of escape Alex Clark welcomes the early and uncollected stories by Mavis Gallant, with their lonely, rootless characters, dreaming of escape. In the rest of the paper, you will find atheists, Americans, Clarice Lispector and, last but not least, In Brief.

commentary

A tragedy of idle weeds: The last work of Grigori Kozintsev, the dissident Soviet film-maker, was a Russian version of King Lear. Richard Maggraf Turley, Howard Thomas and Jayne Elisabeth Archer ask if it is more earthily faithful to Shakespeare than most modern stagings set in "empty" spaces.
James Doelman adds a poem, which includes a well-known couplet, to the otherwise seldom-disturbed canon of George Herbert's work. Hugo Williams is cut from a Julien Temple film; in Then and Now, we look back to Mavis Gallant's view of Le Petit Prince and its author. NB continues to puzzle over the alleged censorship of J. D. Salinger, and considers a career in bandy or korfball.
On the Letters page, the subjects are Universities and the pursuit of truth, Deir Yassin, Knut Hamsun, inter alia.
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arts

Despite his faults: A. N. Wilson admires two new films about the late, great Tolstoy - an updating of The Kreutzer Sonata and The Last Station, adapted from Jay Parini's novel.

In the next issue of the TLS

Rachel Polonsky
Modern art comes to Moscow
Martin Goodman
What possessed Shlomo Sand?
Caroline McGinn
Zadie Smith's mind
Lesley Chamberlain
Heidegger's Darwin