The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre | Theatre review

“I’m dead, then? Good.” With this wry, sardonic opening line, 77-year-old AE Housman finds himself ferried across the River Styx to Hades in Tom Stoppard’s 1997 play The Invention of Love. These words befit a renowned Latin poet and scholar who, famous in his lifetime for his poetry book A Shropshire Lad, never quite lived. […]