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“... of rhetorical devices we no longer habitually use or recognise on the representation of character. Molly Mahood’s rather extraordinary achievement is to have found what I take to be a new Shakespeare topic, which she explores with the aid of an impressively detailed knowledge of the texts and a feeling for what happens to them in the theatre, including ...”

“... believed, by moulding an indigenous cadre in the image of the departing power. In the mid-1950s Molly Mahood, a Shakespeare scholar from Oxford, told students and faculty at Ibadan that ‘a country does not attain nationhood without a literature, and Nigeria has not yet a literature.’ She meant a literature in English, and pointed to Ireland, whose ...”