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.

In the LRB Archive:

• Short Cuts: Deutschland ist Hamlet · 6 August 2009

• ‘Where’s yer Wullie Shakespeare noo?’: 17th-century literary culture · 11 September 2008

  • Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 by John Kerrigan

• Father-Daughter Problems: Shakespeare’s Bad Daughters · 8 May 2008

  • The Lodger: Shakespeare in Silver Street by Charles Nicholl

• Let him be Caesar!: The Astor Place Riot · 2 August 2007

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

• For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields: The Yellow Shakespeare · 10 May 2007

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

• Mushrooms: How to Be a Favourite · 5 October 2006

  • Literature and Favouritism in Early Modern England by Curtis Perry

• A Furtive Night’s Work: Shakespeare’s working habits · 20 October 2005

  • 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro

• Posthumous Gentleman: Kit Marlowe’s Schooldays · 19 August 2004

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

• And That Rug!: images of Shakespeare · 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

• Whatever you do, buy on Shakespeare’s First Folio · 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

• 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

• Hoarder of Malt on Shakespeare · 7 January 1999

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

• Gobsmacked on Shakespeare · 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

• There’s a porpoise close behind us · 13 November 1997

  • The Origins of English Nonsense by Noel Malcolm

• Shee Spy · 8 May 1997

  • The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd

• Cold Front in Arden · 31 October 1996

  • Reading Shakespeare Historically by Lisa Jardine
  • Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre by Louis Montrose
  • Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context by Patricia Parker
  • Impersonations: Gender and Performance in Shakespear’s England by Stephen Orgel

• Dwarf-Basher · 8 June 1995

  • Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography by Peter Martin

• Fault-Finders · 18 November 1993

  • ‘Hamlet’ versus ‘Lear’: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare’s Art by R.A. Foakes
  • Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels by Brian Vickers
  • Shakespeare, Poet and Citizen by Victor Kieran

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