Brave as hell
John Kerrigan, 21 June 1984
Enderby’s Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby
by Anthony Burgess.
Hutchinson, 160 pp., £7.95, March 1984,0 09 156050 0 Show More
by Anthony Burgess.
Hutchinson, 160 pp., £7.95, March 1984,
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Modern Edition
edited by A.L. Rowse.
Macmillan, 311 pp., £20, March 1984,0 333 36386 8 Show More
edited by A.L. Rowse.
Macmillan, 311 pp., £20, March 1984,
“... was a major form. Forgotten now, or doomed to be read only by critics, books like Miss Severn’s Anne Hathaway; or, Shakespeare in Love enjoyed mass appeal in Victorian England. One fatuous confection by Robert Folkestone Williams, The Youth of Shakespeare, went through six editions in three countries, besides being translated into German, and the author was ... ”