The Gentleman Dancing-Master Considering it's almost four centuries old, "The Gentleman Dancing-Master" still delivers quite a kick. Written in 1672 by William Wycherley, that bawdy master of ...

Brigid began when she was 14 and she was still 14 when she heard about the dancing-master. It was Mr Crome who talked about him first, whose slow, lugubrious delivery came through the open ...

It’s a neat link-up with the fact that the BBC could have had The Dancing Master from the start, but the then high-minded assessors apparently thought the opera “too bawdy for a family audience”. That ...