Wise Children (38 page)

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Brush up your Shakespeare.

COLE PORTER

It’s a wise child that knows its own father.

OLD SAW

How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and

daughters, never mothers and daughters.

ELLEN TERRY

Published by Vintage 2006

Copyright © Angela Carter 1991

Introduction copyright © Ali Smith 2006

First published by Chatto & Windus Ltd 1991

First published by Vintage in 1992

Extracts from ‘It’s only a Paper Moon’ by Arlen/Harburg/Rose, ‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy’ by Cole Porter and ‘The Way You Look Tonight’ by Kern/Fields, copyright © Warner Chappell Music Ltd, are reproduced by permission of Warner Chappell Ltd, and Polygram Music. The lines from ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, copyright © 1928 Mills Music Inc, USA, are reproduced by permission of Lawrence Wright Music Co. Ltd, London WC2H 0EA

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