Spectator competition winners: Was Thomas Hardy a stalker?
The call for letters from a fictional character to his, hers or its creator complaining about their portrayal brought in a mammoth entry bristling with outrage. John Milton was bombarded with complaints by the thoroughly hacked-off cast of Paradise Lost. Wodehouse, too, got it in the neck from a parade of cheesed-off Bertie Woosters (Aunt Agatha wasn’t overly happy either). The Grinch gave both barrels to Dr Seuss (‘To be here in You-ville does NOT make me happy’). And Billy Bunter called out Frank Richards for fat-shaming. There were sparkling performances from Mae Scanlan, Roger Rengold, C.J. Gleed, Robert Schechter, J. Seery and Max Ross. The excellent entries printed below
