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Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean.
‘Words, Words, Words’
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
by Ron Rosenbaum
March 29, 2007 issue
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
Shakespeare: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
That Man Shakespeare: Icon of Modern Culture
by David Ellis
May 11, 2006 issue
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
The Rebellion of the Beasts, or, The Ass Is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!!
by Leigh Hunt, with an introduction by Douglas A. Anderson
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
December 15, 2005 issue
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
December 19, 2002 issue
The Group
The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802
by John Worthen
November 1, 2001 issue
Not an Ideal Husband
On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece
by Stephen Minta
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
by Benita Eisler
November 18, 1999 issue
John Berryman’s Flying Horse
Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings
by John Berryman, edited by John Haffenden
September 23, 1999 issue
The Mysterious Mr. Wordsworth
Wordsworth and the Victorians
by Stephen Gill
The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy
by Kenneth R. Johnston
January 14, 1999 issue
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
December 19, 1996 issue
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
April 4, 1996 issue
Twice Around the Grounds
Arcadia
a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Trevor Nunn
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
June 8, 1995 issue
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
May 26, 1994 issue
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
June 10, 1993 issue
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
May 27, 1993 issue
Perils of Historicism
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
by Stephen J. Greenblatt
March 28, 1991 issue
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