The Man Behind the Plays
Who was Shakespeare, anyhow? Do even the experts really know? And why should anybody care?
All Stories About Shakespeare
Shakespeare the Brainiac
Four tomes from the Shakespearean assembly line plumb the mind behind the man.
Shaking a Stage
A Shakespeare scholar shows how the world makes claims on the Bard.
Maladjustments
Why ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ should remain open to interpretation.
The Critic as Puck
Jan Kott writes about the exchange between life and drama so artfully that it sometimes appears that history and literature have performed his critical tasks for him.
Newspeak Shakespeare
A.L. Rowse cannot ruin the unique grace and style of Shakespeare’s language; but he taints it more than a little.
