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Vol. 7 No. 13 · 18 July 1985
David Norbrook
Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. Manchester, 244 pp., £19.50, April 1985, 0 7190 1752 1 Alternative Shakespeares edited by John Drakakis. Methuen, 252 pp., £10.50, July 1985, 0 416 36850 6 Shakespeare and Others by S. Schoenbaum. Scolar, 285 pp., £25, May 1985, 0 85967 691 9 Illustrations of the English Stage 1580-1642 by R.A. Foakes. Scolar, 180 pp., £35, February 1985, 0 85967 684 6 Shakespeare: The ‘Lost Years’ by E.A.J. Honigmann. Manchester, 172 pp., £17.50, April 1985, 0 7190 1743 2
Letters
Paul Milican, Martin Dodsworth, G.F.C. Plowden, Alan Sinfield, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, G.M. Watkins, Patricia Craig, Jeffrey Bogdan, Dorothee Metlitzki
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Poem: ‘Vic’
Alan Brinkley
The Heavy Dancers by E.P. Thompson. Merlin, 340 pp., £12.50, March 1985, 0 85036 328 4 Star Wars: Self-Destruct Incorporated by E.P. Thompson and Ben Thompson. Merlin, 71 pp., £1, May 1985, 0 85036 334 9
Tam Dalyell
The Ponting Affair by Richard Norton-Taylor. Cecil Woolf, 144 pp., £5.95, June 1985, 0 900821 74 4 Who Killed Hilda Murrell? by Judith Cook. New English Library, 182 pp., £1.95, June 1985, 0 450 05885 9
David Drew
From the Other Side
Anthony Pagden
The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy by David Gilmour. Quartet, 306 pp., £12.95, March 1985, 9780704324619
Barry Stroud
Wittgenstein by A.J. Ayer. Weidenfeld, 155 pp., £14.95, May 1985, 0 297 78612 1 The Legacy of Wittgenstein by Anthony Kenny. Blackwell, 150 pp., £12.50, September 1984, 9780631137054 Wittgenstein on Meaning by Colin McGinn. Blackwell, 202 pp., £12.50, December 1984, 0 631 13764 5 Understanding Wittgenstein: Studies of ‘Philosophical Investigations’ by J.M.F. Hunter. Edinburgh, 248 pp., £20, March 1985, 0 85224 497 5
Christopher Norris
Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law by Gillian Rose. Blackwell, 232 pp., £22.50, August 1984, 0 631 13191 4
Patrick Parrinder
Still Life by A.S. Byatt. Chatto, 358 pp., £9.95, June 1985, 0 7011 2667 1 Wales’ Work by Robert Walshe. Secker, 279 pp., £8.95, July 1985, 9780436561450
Sylvia Kantaris
Poem: ‘Mud Honeymoon’
D.A.N. Jones
With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Beacon, 271 pp., £19.95, October 1984, 0 8070 6354 1 The Dark Brain of Piranesi, and Other Essays by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated with the author Richard Howard. Aidan Ellis, 232 pp., £9.50, June 1985, 0 85628 140 9 Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated with the author Walter Kaiser. Aidan Ellis, 105 pp., £8.95, January 1984, 0 85628 138 7 Coup de Grâce by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated with the author Grace Frick . Black Swan, 112 pp., £2.50, October 1984, 9780552991216
Humphrey Carpenter
In the Dark by R.M. Lamming. Cape, 230 pp., £8.95, June 1985, 9780224022927 A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory by Isabel Colegate. Hamish Hamilton, 153 pp., £8.95, June 1985, 0 241 11532 9 Midnight Mass by Peter Bowles. Peter Owen, 190 pp., £8.95, June 1985, 0 7206 0647 0 The Silver Age by James Lasdun. Cape, 186 pp., £8.95, July 1985, 0 224 02316 0 The House of Kanze by Nobuko Albery. Century, 307 pp., £9.95, June 1985, 0 7126 0850 8
Lord Goodman
Diary: On Loving Lucian Freud
Elizabeth Mavor
A Traveller in Romance by W. Somerset Maugham, edited by John Whitehead. Muller, Blond and White, 275 pp., £12.95, November 1984, 0 85634 184 3
Jill Neville
Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary by Joan Wyndham. Heinemann, 203 pp., £9.95, April 1985, 0 04 348786 6
Clive James
Poem: ‘Sack Artist’
C.H. Sisson
New and Collected Poems: 1934-84 by Roy Fuller. Secker in association with London Magazine Editions, 557 pp., £14.95, June 1985, 0 436 16790 5 The Sea at the Door by Sylvia Kantaris. Secker, 70 pp., £3.95, June 1985, 0 436 23070 4
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