Robert Louis Stevenson
Top 10 books about hellraisers
The full facts about debauched lives do not make happy reading, but authors from Robert Louis Stevenson to Hunter S Thompson offer thrilling reading without concealing the cost
David Fleming
21, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
Jekyll and Hyde review – Stevenson’s shocker rewired as a riveting solo
Playwright Gary McNair turns the gothic novel into a brilliantly bewitching show performed by Audrey Brisson
Arifa Akbar
14, Oct, 2022 @1:53 PM
Jekyll and Hyde review – #MeToo transformation explores monstrous masculinity
Neil Bartlett’s version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic has female leads laying bare the rot at the heart of a beastly boys’ club
Mark Fisher
07, Oct, 2022 @10:36 AM
Top 10 mirrored lives in fiction
From Oscar Wilde to Daisy Johnson, parallel lives – and what they say about choices and circumstance – have long been a source of fascination and inspiration for novelists
Alex Hyde
23, Mar, 2022 @3:37 PM
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde review – theatre-film hybrid is an unwieldy beast
Hope Dickson Leach relocates RL Stevenson’s gothic chiller to its spiritual home in Edinburgh and gives it a modern format, but it’s a verbose, old-fashioned work
Mark Fisher
28, Feb, 2022 @12:01 AM
‘Audiences want an event’: inside the groundbreaking new version of Jekyll and Hyde
Is it a play? Or is it a film? There are two sides to director Hope Dickson Leach’s ambitious staging of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale
Kate Wyver
10, Feb, 2022 @2:30 PM
'Lost' letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson's mutual affection
Newly examined correspondence shows deep respect between Peter Pan and Treasure Island authors, who never met
Donna Ferguson
25, Oct, 2020 @6:47 AM
'Thank goodness they made Jim Hawkins a lady!' Patsy Ferran on Treasure Island
As the National Theatre’s 2014 staging of the classic adventure is streamed online, its star remembers her breakthrough year
Interview by Chris Wiegand
14, Apr, 2020 @4:28 PM
Poem of the week: Bright is the Ring of Words by Robert Louis Stevenson
I was surprised how much impact this Victorian classic holds. An untarnished golden oldie? I think so
Carol Rumens
17, Feb, 2020 @11:00 AM
William Gray obituary
Literary critic whose multidisciplinary perspective revealed the existential depth of fairytales and fantasy
Donald Haase
12, Jul, 2019 @4:23 PM
Jekyll & Hyde review – this teenage riot is furious and fearless
Evan Placey transforms the lead characters into women in a provocative version embraced by a brilliant young cast
Gareth Llŷr Evans
25, Apr, 2019 @1:30 PM
Gloucester church with literary links reopens after £2.1m restoration
Banker James Wood, buried in the church, may have inspired Charles Dickens’s Scrooge
Steven Morris
24, Mar, 2019 @4:15 PM
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