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“... though, I don’t care, because, being an introduction, this book does not aspire to discovery. Barroll, de Grazia, and Razzell, by contrast, all say something genuinely new. None is a biographer; none offers the pleasures of narrative, or the illusion of a whole life, or the interpretive transformation of a work which a knowledge of the author’s life can ...”

“... However, a new and more substantial Anne is beginning to emerge, thanks to the work of Leeds Barroll and Maureen Meikle. Her discreet conversion to Catholicism in the years before 1603, for example, was the basis of the Anglo-Spanish marriage diplomacy that dominated James’s English reign. Stewart accepts James’s homosexuality as ...”

“... week – the number was later raised to 40 – the theatres were ordered shut, with the result (as Leeds Barroll showed in his groundbreaking Politics, Plague and Shakespeare’s Theatre) that from 1603 to 1610 public playhouses were probably closed two-thirds of the time. Biographers, notably Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jonathan Bate, have struggled to ...”

“... of the Oxford Complete Works of Shakespeare and the editor of the new Arden edition of the play. Leeds Barroll, who has looked harder at the episode than anyone else and has perceptively exposed a number of misconceptions about it, suspends his spirit of inquiry in stating that the play was ‘presumably Shakespeare’s’.† If it was, then the ...”