Gobsmacked
Michael Dobson: Shakespeare, 16 July 1998
Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry
by James Biester.
Cornell, 226 pp., £31.50, May 1997,0 8014 3313 4 Show More
by James Biester.
Cornell, 226 pp., £31.50, May 1997,
Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvellous
by Peter Platt.
Nebraska, 271 pp., £42.75, January 1998,0 8032 3714 6 Show More
by Peter Platt.
Nebraska, 271 pp., £42.75, January 1998,
Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
by T.G. Bishop.
Cambridge, 222 pp., £32.50, January 1996,0 521 55086 6 Show More
by T.G. Bishop.
Cambridge, 222 pp., £32.50, January 1996,
The Genius of Shakespeare
by Jonathan Bate.
Picador, 386 pp., £20, September 1997,0 330 35317 9 Show More
by Jonathan Bate.
Picador, 386 pp., £20, September 1997,
“... batch of studies finds, in the USA, Peter Plan and T.G. Bishop combing the plays for miracles and James Biester finding the key to Renaissance courtly poetry in its strategies for eliciting astonishment. Back home, Jonathan Bate is gobsmacked by the sheer Genius of Shakespeare. It’s perhaps as well to remember that in cooler moments Jonson complained ... ”
