08 March 2018, The Tablet
Different worlds: Peter Gill's 'The York Realist'
My English literature degree at University College London featured a fiendish and much-feared finals paper requiring candidates to date anonymised passages of writing. If vocabulary was older than you suspected – or had experienced two distant eras of fashionability – it was possible to be decades, or even centuries, wrong.
Peter Gill’s play The York Realist would be a particularly confusing inclusion in the exercise.
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