Volume 36, Number 14 · September 28, 1989
Shakespeare's Double Vision
By E.A.J. Honigmann
Shakespeare: The Four Romances
by Robert M. Adams
Norton, 178 pp., $19.95
'The comfortable book on Shakespeare is one of those not worth writing'—an irresistible beginning! Yet anyone who expects an uncomfortable book to follow is going to be disappointed. Mr. Adams expresses his personal views, some of which may not please unidentified opponents, yet so pithily, so benignly, that one chuckles from page to page. With a minimum of footnotes, no name-dropping, no straining or strutting to impress, Shakespeare: The Four Romances is set down with as much modesty as cunning—one of those rare books on Shakespeare that is a genuine delight to read.
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