Philip Hensher

For all time

To review some new books about Shakespeare is not to note a revival of interest, but simply to let down a bucket into an undammed river.

issue 03 April 2010

  • Shakespeare, Sex and Love

    Stanley Wells

    OUP, pp. 282

  • Contested Will

    James Shapiro

    Faber, pp. 367

  • The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare

    Robert Winder

    Little Brown, pp. 448

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