elizabeth barrett browning

Theatre Review – Canadian Rep Theatre/How do I love Thee? By Florence Gibson MacDonald

The passionate love match between Victorian poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett has been well-documented in plays like Rudolf Besier’s The Barretts of Wimpole Street and Virginia Woolf’s novella Flush. MacDonald’s play How do I love thee? shows us a completely different side of the couple post elopement. Barrett, it seems, was a drug addict, […]