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Slight of build, with an eminently squinchy face, McKellen is not an overwhelmingly noble presence. His Shakespearean range is probably closer to Ralph Richardson's than Olivier's. But he has wit, a mime's command of body language, and the antic courage of an impressionist. There...
After nine years of recording everything in his secret diary, Pepys abandoned it at age 36 because he mistakenly feared that he was going blind. He died rich and respectable three decades later, bequeathing to his college at Cambridge a library of 3,000 volumes and the bookcases he had...
Pepysians began talking about a new, correct and complete edition as long ago as 1926, but the labors of retranscribing and annotating the 1.3 million-word text were heroic. The first three volumes finally appeared, to general huzzas, in 1970; the last volume of Pepys' text appeared in 1976...
Now comes yet more. Volume X, titled Companion, is a kind of Pepysopedia, ranging from biographical sketches of all the myriad characters to a 25-page essay on Pepys' passion for music. "Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is," he confessed. Volume XI...
Is it perhaps too definitive for all but the most dedicated Pepysians? The editors have thought of that too. The solution is a splendid one-volume abridgment with lots of color pictures: The Illustrated Pepys. As the Victorian editors represented their times, the modern editors reflect theirs: the political history...