Book reviews

Photo Credit Jeremy Malies “The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby”, Irene Coslet Book review by Simon Jenner, April 5 2025 I Irene Coslet’s The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano is a …

Photo Credit Jeremy Malies Review by Simon Jenner, December 1 2025 Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher MarloweStephen Greenblatt. 334 pp. Bodley Head …

Photo Credit Jeremy Malies Review by Simon Jenner, September 5 2025 This is a book that takes sides with no apologies. Brown lays out a case for the coming-of-age of …

Photo Credit John MacFarlane Review by Simon Jenner, November 18th 2024 I Open this book and it is not words that strike you first. After you’ve been assaulted by vivid …

Iain Mackintosh: Theatre Spaces 1920-2020 – Finding the Fun in FunctionalismMethuen Drama (2023) – 242 pages Before the 1930s, books on architecture from Vitruvius onwards might have had many virtues: …

I Now 93, pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells has written several short works on Shakespeare recently. What Was Shakespeare Really Like? distils this further, even discussing what used to be …