Hawkesbiz

Frank Kermode

  • Meaning by Shakespeare by Terence Hawkes
    Routledge, 173 pp, £30.00, October 1992, ISBN 0 415 50745 6
  • Shakespeare’s Professional Career by Peter Thomson
    Cambridge, 217 pp, £24.95, September 1992, ISBN 0 521 35128 6
  • Shakespeare’s Mouldy Tales by Leah Scragg
    Longman, 201 pp, £24.00, October 1992, ISBN 0 582 07071 6
  • Reading Shakespeare’s Characters by Christy Desmet
    Massachusetts, 215 pp, £22.50, December 1992, ISBN 0 87023 807 8
  • Bit Parts in Shakespeare’s Plays by Molly Mahood
    Cambridge, 252 pp, £35.00, January 1993, ISBN 0 521 41612 4

Faithful readers of this journal will remember Terence Hawkes’s article ‘Bardbiz’, if only because it provoked, between March 1990 and September 1991, one of the most protracted scuffles in the history of correspondence columns. ‘Bardbiz’ is unrepentantly reprinted in this new book, omitting the subsequent complaints and endorsements but courteously listing their authors.

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