HISTORY MADE EASY
DICTATORS ALL: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Kingsley Brady. Printed for the author by Whitcombe & Tombs. R. BRADY has written this comedy to be performed as well as read, but it reads so easily that things may not turn out as he intended. Nero, Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Louis XIV. of France, Philip II. of Spain, Attila and Alexander are seen in the corner of a room in hell, where, when the curtain goes up, Napoleon is asking Nero to "stop playing that damned fiddle"; or'if he can’t stop, to play another tune (he is playing "The British Grenadiers’). Nero asks whether "Rule Britannia" would be acceptable, or perhaps "Hearts of Oak"-and you now have the atmosphere. What follows is history as it is usually taught in schools, but told in witty dialogue. You may not like Mr. Brady’s historical twists — his for ever England-ism may seem to you no more logical, and a good deal less securely founded in some other ways, than Hitler’s Aryanism. But he will amuse you even when he annoys you, and charge you only a shilling for the experience. And for this you will also get a refreshingly smart printing job, with a cover design by Russell Clark,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 11
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208HISTORY MADE EASY New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 11
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