The Private Life of William Shakespeare, by Lena Cowen Orlin
Peter J. Smith gets drowned in the detail of an ambitious study of the playwright’s milieu
Peter J. Smith gets drowned in the detail of an ambitious study of the playwright’s milieu
Peter J. Smith enjoys a powerful analysis of how the work of the Bard cuts through simplistic notions of national identity
Peter J. Smith admires a bold attempt to show how details of poetic form reflected deep political and religious divisions in early modern England
Peter J. Smith applauds a fascinating, if stomach-churning, study of ‘the pongs of the past’
Peter J. Smith enjoys a vivid, if perhaps idealised, account of life in one of the world’s great breweries