RIP NF Simpson, blissfully funny and deeply English dramatist | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

The plays of NF 'Wally' Simpson, who has died aged 92, were hilariously subversive, yet masked a deeply philosophical mindThe comic dramatist NF Simpson, who has died at the ripe old age of 92, was often compared with Eugène Ionesco. But I always thought he belonged to a deeply English tradition of word-spinning, logic-twisting absurdity. Simpson's real ancestors were Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and the Goons. His le…

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