The Old Corrector
Richard Altick, 4 November 1982
Fortune and Men’s Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier
by Dewey Ganzel.
Oxford, 454 pp., £15, October 1982,0 19 212231 2 Show More
by Dewey Ganzel.
Oxford, 454 pp., £15, October 1982,
“... in his career, he was exceedingly vulnerable to attack, the more so because his considerable powers as a controversialist seemed to desert him whenever he found himself on the defensive. His numerous enemies had their knives ready for him: but he had helped unsheathe them. In the perilous atmosphere of Shakespeare studies in the Early Victorian ... ”