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Arts

Theatre Curtains for Hamlet Christopher Edwards Hamlet (Old Vic) The Beaux' Stratagem (Lyttelton) Salome (Olivier) H ere is a chance to witness an encoun- ter between Yuri......

How The West Was Lost

John Keegan WARFARE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD edited by General Sir John Hackett Sidgwick & Jackson, .f16.95, pp. 256 T he End of History' provokes con- troversy. 'The Beginning of......