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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Gobsmacked

Michael Dobson

  • 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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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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