Anne Barton
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
From the Review
May 10, 2007: 'The Shakespeare Wars' (letter)
March 29, 2007: 'Words, Words, Words'
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum
June 22, 2006: 'The One and Only' (letter)
May 11, 2006: The One and Only
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro
Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance by Richard Wilson
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith
That Man Shakespeare: Icon of Modern Culture by David Ellis
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
December 15, 2005: The Romantic Survivor
Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt by Nicholas Roe
The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt—Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last of the Romantics by Anthony Holden
Lord Byron's Life in Italy (Vie de Lord Byron en Italie) by Teresa Guiccioli, translated from the French by Michael Rees and edited by Peter Cochran
The Rebellion of the Beasts, or, The Ass Is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! by Leigh Hunt, with an introduction by Douglas A. Anderson
December 19, 2002: Byron: The Poetry of It All
The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons by David Crane
Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy
November 1, 2001: The Group
The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802 by John Worthen
April 27, 2000: The Truth as Masquerade
November 18, 1999: Not an Ideal Husband
On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece by Stephen Minta
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler
September 23, 1999: John Berryman's Flying Horse
Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings by John Berryman, edited by John Haffenden
June 24, 1999: Wordsworth's Spin (letter)
January 14, 1999: The Mysterious Mr. Wordsworth
Wordsworth and the Victorians by Stephen Gill
The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy by Kenneth R. Johnston
December 19, 1996: The Village Genius
John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period 1822-1837 edited by Eric Robinson, edited by David Powell, edited by P.M.S. Dawson
April 4, 1996: An Affair to Remember
The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin, Volume I (1808–1834), Volume II (1835–1879) edited by Marion Kingston Stocking
June 8, 1995: Twice Around the Grounds
Arcadia a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Trevor Nunn
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
February 16, 1995: Over the Dark River
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Richard Holmes
May 26, 1994: Sacred Woods
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization by Robert Pogue Harrison
Hunters and Poachers: A Cultural and Social History of Unlawful Hunting in England 1485–1640 by Roger B. Manning
June 10, 1993: Byron Lives!
Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. VII edited by Jerome J. McGann
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. I, Poems, 1807–1818 edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. II, 'Don Juan,' Cantos I–V Manuscript edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. III, Poems, 1819–1822 edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. IV, Miscellaneous Poems edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. V, 'Don Juan,' Cantos VI–VII Manuscript edited and transcribed by Andrew Nicholson
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. VI, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Critical Composite Edition edited by David V. Erdman, edited by David Worrall
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. VII, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III edited by T.A.J. Burnett
Byron's Heroines by Caroline Franklin
Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society by Jerome Christensen
May 27, 1993: Shakespeare in the Sun
Much Ado About Nothing a film by Kenneth Branagh
Much Ado About Nothing the Movie by by William Shakespeare, Screenplay, Introduction, and Notes on the Making of Kenneth Branagh, photographs by Clive Coote
March 28, 1991: Perils of Historicism
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen J. Greenblatt
February 1, 1990: Inventing Shakespeare
Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present by Gary Taylor
Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedies by Barbara Everett
Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly on the Tragedies and Problem Comedies by E.A.J. Honigmann
Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism, 1730–1830 by Jonathan Bate
July 21, 1983: What's a Girl to Do?
The Rapes of Lucretia: A Myth and Its Transformations by Ian Donaldson
Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels by Rachel M. Brownstein
The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson by Terry Eagleton
June 11, 1981: Was Shakespeare a Chauvinist?
Shakespeare's Division of Experience by Marilyn French
Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare by Coppélia Kahn
Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin
From New York Review Books
 | Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. |
Books by Anne Barton
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean (1994)
Byron, Don Juan (1992)
The Names of Comedy (1990)
Ben Jonson, Dramatist (1984)
Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play (1977)
Nature's Piece 'gainst Fancy; The Divided Catastrophe in Antony and Cleopatra; An Inaugural Lecture (1973)