Brecht’s New Age
Margot Heinemann, 1 March 1984
Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches
by John Willett.
Methuen, 274 pp., £12.50, February 1984,0 413 50410 7 Show More
by John Willett.
Methuen, 274 pp., £12.50, February 1984,
Brecht: A Biography
by Ronald Hayman.
Weidenfeld, 423 pp., £18.50, September 1983,0 297 78198 7 Show More
by Ronald Hayman.
Weidenfeld, 423 pp., £18.50, September 1983,
“... It’s probably a good thing that we know so little about Shakespeare’s personal life. What biographical information we have concerns leases, wills, marriage lines, property. His pillow-talk with Anne Hathaway, Emilia Lanier or Mr W. H., interesting as it may have been, was not recorded. If you want to discuss Shakespeare, you have to depend on reading and seeing his work ... ”