Cover: Lucian Freud

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Brinkley
• Humphrey Carpenter
• Kevin Crossley-Holland
• Tam Dalyell
• David Drew
• Lord Goodman
• Clive James
• D.A.N. Jones
• Sylvia Kantaris
• Elizabeth Mavor
• Jill Neville
• David Norbrook
• Christopher Norris
• Anthony Pagden
• Patrick Parrinder
• C.H. Sisson
• Barry Stroud

Contents

• David Norbrook

  • Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield
  • Alternative Shakespeares edited by John Drakakis
  • Shakespeare and Others by S. Schoenbaum
  • Illustrations of the English Stage 1580-1642 by R.A. Foakes
  • Shakespeare: The ‘Lost Years’ by E.A.J. Honigmann

• Letters
  Paul Milican, Martin Dodsworth, G.F.C. Plowden, Alan Sinfield, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, G.M. Watkins, Patricia Craig, Jeffrey Bogdan, Dorothee Metlitzki

• Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Poem: ‘Vic’

• Alan Brinkley

  • The Heavy Dancers by E.P. Thompson
  • Star Wars: Self-Destruct Incorporated by E.P. Thompson and Ben Thompson

• Tam Dalyell

  • The Ponting Affair by Richard Norton-Taylor
  • Who Killed Hilda Murrell? by Judith Cook

• David Drew
  From the Other Side

• Anthony Pagden

  • The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy by David Gilmour

• Barry Stroud

  • Wittgenstein by A.J. Ayer
  • The Legacy of Wittgenstein by Anthony Kenny
  • Wittgenstein on Meaning by Colin McGinn
  • Understanding Wittgenstein: Studies of ‘Philosophical Investigations’ by J.M.F. Hunter

• Christopher Norris

  • Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law by Gillian Rose

• Sylvia Kantaris
  Poem: ‘Mud Honeymoon’

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Still Life by A.S. Byatt
  • Wales’ Work by Robert Walshe

• D.A.N. Jones

  • With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
  • The Dark Brain of Piranesi, and Other Essays by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated with the author Richard Howard
  • Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated with the author Walter Kaiser
  • Coup de Grâce by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated with the author Grace Frick

• Humphrey Carpenter

  • In the Dark by R.M. Lamming
  • A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory by Isabel Colegate
  • Midnight Mass by Peter Bowles
  • The Silver Age by James Lasdun
  • The House of Kanze by Nobuko Albery

• Lord Goodman
  Diary

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Sack Artist’

• Elizabeth Mavor

  • A Traveller in Romance by W. Somerset Maugham, edited by John Whitehead

• Jill Neville

  • Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary by Joan Wyndham

• C.H. Sisson

  • New and Collected Poems: 1934-84 by Roy Fuller
  • The Sea at the Door by Sylvia Kantaris