When Gladstone spent the small hours declaiming endlessly to its members (and even listening to their replies)?

ECONOMIST: The golden age of the Commons

The declaiming just goes on and on and on.

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He had shown precocity as a child, when he and his sister used to try to outdo each other by declaiming from memory grand speeches from Corneille and Racine, and he was fluent in Latin and had taught himself Greek before he was 12.

ECONOMIST: Andr�� Weil

That seems fitting enough, but we also get panel discussions in TV studios, video feeds, and a genuine British news anchor declaiming iambic pentameters as if from an autocue all a trifle forced, as if Fiennes were concerned that we might be embarrassed, or bored, by the spectacle of the bare play.

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