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Michael Dobson

Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.

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subscriber-only content Father-Daughter Problems · 8 May 2008

Let him be Caesar! · 2 August 2007

  • The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in 19th-Century America by Nigel Cliff  Buy this book

For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields · 10 May 2007

  • William Shakespeare, Complete Works: The RSC Shakespeare edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen  Buy this book

Mushrooms · 5 October 2006

  • Literature and Favouritism in Early Modern England by Curtis Perry  Buy this book

subscriber-only content A Furtive Night’s Work · 20 October 2005

subscriber-only content Posthumous Gentleman · 19 August 2004

  • The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs  Buy this book
  • Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines: Journeys through the Elizabethan Underground by Roy Kendall
  • Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh  Buy this book
  • History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe by Rodney Bolt  Buy this book

subscriber-only content And That Rug! · 6 November 2003

  • Shakespeare’s Face: The Story behind the Newly Discovered Portrait by Stephanie Nolen
  • Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions by Stephen Orgel
  • Shakespeare in Art by Jane Martineau et al
  • In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood

subscriber-only content Whatever you do, buy · 15 November 2001

  • The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book Vol. I: An Account of the First Folio Based on Its Sales and Prices, 1623-2000 by Anthony James West

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Lost Mother · 17 February 2000

  • In My End Is My Beginning: A Life of Mary Queen of Scots by James Mackay
  • Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
  • Ancestry and Narrative in 19th-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy by Sophie Gilmartin

 not available in archive Hoarder of Malt · 7 January 1999

  • Shakespeare: A Life by Park Honan
  • Shakespeare: The ‘Lost Years’ by E.A.J. Honigmann

 not available in archive Gobsmacked · 16 July 1998

  • Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry by James Biester
  • Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvellous by Peter Platt
  • Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder by T.G. Bishop
  • The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

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