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L’Hypocrite Lecteur est une série d’analyses consacrée à la lecture intégrale des Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire, sur la base des travaux du professeur Mario Richter. Poème après poème, strophe après strophe, Fabio Molina explore la rhétorique profonde de l’œuvre, sa philosophie, ses symboles et sa terrible moralité. Ici, la poésie n’est pas un exercice scolaire mais une expérience : celle de l’intelligence du mal, de la beauté et de la conscience. Chaque épisode cherche à dévoiler ce que Baudelaire a dissimulé, ce que sa forme sublime masque, et que sa pensée...

Dive into the whimsical world of Sir Henry Maximilian Max Beerbohm, an English essayist and caricaturist, as he presents The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale for Tired Men. This charming short story carries moral undertones and offers a humorous twist reminiscent of Oscar Wildes classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Follow the tale of a man who cleverly dons a mask to win the heart of a woman, exploring themes of deception and identity with wit and levity.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.