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“... 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 ...”

“... has dulled the genuine Hamlet, so that we can, as it were, hear it played on original instruments. Margreta deGrazia’s ‘Hamlet’ without Hamlet elegantly wrestles with a similar bind. Its argument is that our Hamlet needs unmodernising – conceptually rather than typographically (she, rather magnificently, quotes ...”

“... something about being human or slip from having into non-being? The hard-thinking Shakespearean Margreta deGrazia, taking a firmly materialist line, says of King Lear: ‘Having is tantamount to being, not having is tantamount to non-being … persons and things cannot be alienated from one another.’ This ...”

“... Martin regards as recent disparagements of his epoch-making editorial project – most importantly Margreta deGrazia’s excellent full-length study, Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus (1991) – the overall effect of this biography is to provoke considerable misgivings about ...”