Volume 41, Number 15 · September 22, 1994
Lighting Up Shakespeare
By Robert M. Adams
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean
by Anne Barton
Cambridge University Press, 386 pp., $59.95
The author of four substantial scholarly books, numerous editorial interventions, and various critical articles, Anne Barton is a lucid and witty writer whose learning is both extensive and solidly grounded. Though born in America and a graduate of Bryn Mawr, she has lived and worked most of her adult life in England, where she is currently Professor of English and Fellow of Trinity College at Cambridge. Her career has been consistently, though not exclusively, devoted to the study of Shakespeare; and the present volume, Essays, Mainly Shakespearean, represents, as it were, a retrospective exhibit of much of her career. Two of the sixteen essays included are previously unpublished, the first, on English marriage customs in relation to Cymbeline, and the other, on 'Comic London,' which stands next to last in the collection.
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