Fault-Finders
Michael Dobson, 18 November 1993
‘Hamlet’ versus ‘Lear’: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare’s Art
by R.A. Foakes.
Cambridge, 262 pp., £30, March 1993,0 521 34292 9 Show More
by R.A. Foakes.
Cambridge, 262 pp., £30, March 1993,
Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels
by Brian Vickers.
Yale, 508 pp., £35, April 1993,0 300 05415 7 Show More
by Brian Vickers.
Yale, 508 pp., £35, April 1993,
Shakespeare, Poet and Citizen
by Victor Kieran.
Verso, 261 pp., £18.95, March 1993,0 86091 392 9 Show More
by Victor Kieran.
Verso, 261 pp., £18.95, March 1993,
“... Shakespeareans has been making of the critical upsets of the Eighties and Nineties. Alongside them Victor Kiernan’s Shakespeare, Poet and Citizen – first drafted in the early Fifties, by a historian who has remained a non-combatant in the debates to which Foakes and Vickers appoint themselves as respondents – appears as a last stray blossom from the ... ”
