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Book Reviews by subject:
Theatre & William Shakespeare

September 2024 Issue

Henry Hitchings

The Play’s the Thing

A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories

By Simon Russell Beale

June 2024 Issue

Sophie Duncan

In Search of the Fair Youth

Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

By Will Tosh

January 1988 Issue

Kate Kellaway

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

By Jonathan Miller (dir)

April 2002 Issue

Robert Nye

We Could Do With A Few More, Monsieur

After Shakespeare: An Anthology

By John Gross ed.

April 2017 Issue

Benedict Nightingale

All the World’s a Stage

Hamlet: Globe to Globe

By Dominic Dromgoole

November 1979 Issue

E M Valk

Shakespeare’s Realism and the Gallery

August 1984 Issue

Emrys Jones

The Tragic Idea

Titus Andronicus

By Eugene M Waith (ed)

Julius Caesar

By Arthur Humphreys (ed)

Peter Levi

Something Useful in the New Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare

By Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (edd)

April 2010 Issue

Katherine Duncan-Jones

Much Ado About Nothing

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

By James Shapiro

October 2008 Issue

Katherine Duncan-Jones

As You Like Him

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Jonathan Bate

November 2007 Issue

Robert Nye

Love’s Lodgings Lost

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

By Charles Nicholl

April 2007 Issue

A C Grayling

Passion & Possibility

Shakespeare the Thinker

By A D Nuttall

Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography

By René Weis

August 2006 Issue

Ben Morgan

Playmates

Shakespeare and Co

By Stanley Wells

November 2012 Issue

Katherine Duncan-Jones

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Shakespeare’s Restless World

By Neil MacGregor

April 2014 Issue

Anne Somerset

Out, Damned Nightspot

Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe

By Chris Laoutaris