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Ms. Aitken’s staging is bluntly legible, a grade-saver for Shakespeare-shy students and capable enough for fans in it just for the cakes and ale.

I just finished Cakes and Ale, a work of pure literary assassination of other writers.

In his lifetime, he provided the model for the social-climbing Alroy Kear, who is mercilessly satirized in Somerset Maugham’s witty masterpiece “Cakes and Ale.”

Who needs cakes and ale when you have pizza and lager?

But everyone was pleased by the time we sat down for the traditional cakes and ale.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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