The play’s observations may occasionally show their roots in the mid-’70s — a period evoked with crisp understatement by the director and designers — but the material and its endless ...

And so to the burning question: Which one of Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy of vintage 1973 English comedies, The Norman Conquests at Circle in the Square theater, must you see?The first, Table ...

Many critics think “The Norman Conquests,” a comic trilogy set in a middle-class suburb, is Ayckbourn’s finest play.

The next Norman Conquest for your consideration occurred on Oct. 14, 1066, when a Frenchman by the name of William beat the English King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.

The revelation of the Broadway revival of Alan Ayckbourn's early-1970s trilogy "The Norman Conquests" is how deeply moving -- as well as uproariously funny -- these comedies of manners are.

Norman Conquests' Table Manners is traditionally played first, but Radio 4 will broadcast Living Together instead, to show the lead character’s lechery and mad drunkenness at full tilt.

The Norman leaders spoke French; indeed the Welsh chroniclers of the period write not of fighting the English but of fighting the French.

English Feudal Society from the Norman Conquest to the Middle of the Fourteenth Century. By Mary Bateson, Associate and Lecturer of Newnham College, Cambridge. New York: G.P Putnam's Sons.

The Norman Conquest didn’t change ordinary people’s lives very much A recent study suggests that after 1066, English food was as terrible but filling as before.

The play’s observations may occasionally show their roots in the mid-’70s — a period evoked with crisp understatement by the director and designers — but the material and its endless ...