Earthly Paradise by Peter Whelan
Love among the artists is always a good dramatic theme. And Peter Whelan, an undervalued craftsman, has conjured an entertaining play out of a curious Pre-Raphaelite ménage à trois.
At Kelmscott Manor in the early 1870s William Morris, his wife Janey and the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti have a three way relationship.
Morris took himself off to Iceland each summer to allow Janey to fulfil her role as Rossetti's model, muse and idealised lover. But the relationship stopped short of phys
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