http://www.playshakespeare.com/ http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5987-shakespeares-justice http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5987-shakespeares-justice In A Thousand Times More Fair, legal scholar Kenji Yoshino offers a superb example of how the reading of... ]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:03:00 -0600 5987 2012-02-15 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/_a-thousand-times-more-fair-1329296597.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5986-the-theatrical-and-the-operatic http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5986-the-theatrical-and-the-operatic No composer has more successfully set Shakespeare to music more often than Giuseppe Verdi, with his early, fascinating and... ]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:56:00 -0600 5986 2012-02-15 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/_9780670023042h-1329296217.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5975-the-book-of-twelfth-night-a-work-of-unfinished-potential http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5975-the-book-of-twelfth-night-a-work-of-unfinished-potential Wayne Myers’s The Book of “Twelfth Night, or What You Will”: Musings on Shakespeare’s Most Wonderful (and Erotic) Play... ]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:33:00 -0600 5975 2012-01-17 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/_book-of-12th-night-1326782006.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5924-james-shapiro-on-shakespeare-at-the-turn-of-centuries-and-cultures http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5924-james-shapiro-on-shakespeare-at-the-turn-of-centuries-and-cultures James Shapiro opens his narrative with the close-up, confidential tone of a detective novel. In his first paragraph he... ]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:45:00 -0600 5924 2011-12-22 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/5924_0060088737.01.lzzzzzzz-1324657350.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/5924_james-shapiro-570x380-1324657350.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5816-shakespeare-101-and-a-pleasant-read-as-well http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5816-shakespeare-101-and-a-pleasant-read-as-well Stanley Wells is one of the most eminent and erudite of Shakespearean scholars, and while there are many who... ]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:42:00 -0600 5816 2011-11-29 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/_shakespeare-for-all-time-1322570527.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5814-proving-shakespeares-authorship-instead-of-disproving-other-candidates http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5814-proving-shakespeares-authorship-instead-of-disproving-other-candidates Unfortunately the subtitle to Scott McCrea's The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship is both inaccurate and... ]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:35:00 -0600 5814 2011-11-24 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/_case-for-shakespeare-end-authorship-question-scott-mccrea-paperback-cover-art-1322141729.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5621-shakespeare-bites-back-with-a-vengeance http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5621-shakespeare-bites-back-with-a-vengeance Professor Stanley Wells of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has had enough. A highly regarded, well-published, not entirely uncontroversial scholar... ]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:03:00 -0500 5621 2011-11-04 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/5621_bitesback-1320453538. http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5545-shakespeare-thefts-is-stealing-the-spotlight http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5545-shakespeare-thefts-is-stealing-the-spotlight Eric Rasmussen is Folio Hunter, but he's better known as co-editor of the Royal Shakespeare edition of the Complete... ]]> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:00:00 -0500 5545 2011-10-11 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/_shakespearetheftscover_1318194644.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/_EricRasmussen_1318194644.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5400-nicholls-dodgy-lodger http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5400-nicholls-dodgy-lodger I never fail to be impressed by popular writing on Shakespeare’s life. Authors manage to squeeze three hundred pages... ]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:40:00 -0500 5400 2011-06-27 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/5400_51jhzIurjvL.SL500_1309414072.jpg http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5375-an-investigation-into-forgery-codes-and-misreadings-of-early-modern-history http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/265-book-reviews-not-play-specific/5375-an-investigation-into-forgery-codes-and-misreadings-of-early-modern-history A year before he retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, John Paul Stevens told the Wall Street Journal... ]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:49:00 -0500 5375 2011-04-19 http://www.playshakespeare.com/images/stories/jreviews/5375_ContestedWill_1303220087.jpg