Mulberrying
Andrew Gurr, 6 February 1986
Shakespeare: A Writer’s Progress
by Philip Edwards.
Oxford, 204 pp., £12.50, January 1986,0 19 219184 5 Show More
by Philip Edwards.
Oxford, 204 pp., £12.50, January 1986,
Shakespeare’s Lost Play: ‘Edmund Ironside’
edited by Eric Sams.
Fourth Estate, 383 pp., £25, January 1986,0 947795 95 2 Show More
edited by Eric Sams.
Fourth Estate, 383 pp., £25, January 1986,
Such is my love: A Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
by Joseph Pequigney.
Chicago, 249 pp., £16.95, October 1985,0 226 65563 6 Show More
by Joseph Pequigney.
Chicago, 249 pp., £16.95, October 1985,
Shakespeare Survey 38: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production
edited by Stanley Wells.
Cambridge, 262 pp., £25, January 1986,0 521 32026 7 Show More
edited by Stanley Wells.
Cambridge, 262 pp., £25, January 1986,
The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama
by Catherine Belsey.
Methuen, 253 pp., £13.95, September 1985,0 416 32700 1 Show More
by Catherine Belsey.
Methuen, 253 pp., £13.95, September 1985,
“... Like relics of the True Cross, there are said to be enough splinters to make an orchard from the mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare in his garden at New Place. The Shakespeare canon has excited nearly as much passion for tangible facts, however marginal to the true faith, as Holy Writ. Bits of venerated mulberry scattered around the world of believers are a salutary reminder that our passion for tangibility evokes more than just that irritable reaching after fact and reason that Keats declared to be the antithesis of Shakespeare ... ”