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  • There is no Hollywood-style crawl to explain the year or characters; instead, after a short preamble by Jacobi, disputing not only the existence of Shakespeare but his ability to have written the works, the story throws us into the deep end, with a cornered Ben Jonson Sebastian Armesto arrested by guards in the Globe Theatre.

    Anonymous – review 2011

  • Sandy McDade is blanched and striking as the sold sister and Sebastian Armesto gently slimy as the villain.

    A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review 2011

  • Heywood's Anne Frankford cuckolds her husband John (a steady performance by Paul Ready) with his charming but poor protégé, Wendoll (played drolly and, at one point, entirely unclothed—this is a feminist version, after all—by Sebastian Armesto).

    Director Katie Mitchell's Feminine Mystique Paul Levy 2011

  • In Near a Thousand Tables, a cultural history of food, author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto calls the cultivation of barley and other grains "among the most spectacular achievements of humankind."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010

  • In Near a Thousand Tables, a cultural history of food, author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto calls the cultivation of barley and other grains "among the most spectacular achievements of humankind."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010

  • In Near a Thousand Tables, a cultural history of food, author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto calls the cultivation of barley and other grains "among the most spectacular achievements of humankind."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010

  • In Near a Thousand Tables, a cultural history of food, author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto calls the cultivation of barley and other grains "among the most spectacular achievements of humankind."

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010

  • Fernandez-Armesto then goes on to claim that the invasion of Manchuria “was a preemptive strike, before China became too strong and outclassed all rivals.”

    Another Disappointment 2008

  • Fernandez-Armesto then goes on to claim that the invasion of Manchuria “was a preemptive strike, before China became too strong and outclassed all rivals.”

    井の中の蛙 » Another Disappointment » Print 2008

  • His enthusiasm was boundless and clearly shared by Mr Felipe "plummy" Fernández-Armesto who ended the programme comparing the constitution with a frog – warts and all.

    A Bill of Frights Richard 2005

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