Tag Archives: Stephen Greenblatt

Richard III: an update on the King in the car park

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

Last week’s revelations about the discovery of Richard III’s skeleton in a car park in Leicester has sparked off a flurry of articles about the real and fictitious monarch. Here are links to just a few of them. First of all, … Continue reading →

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Lives of Shakespeare

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

For a man about whom we are supposed to know next to nothing, an awful lot of books have been written about Shakespeare’s life. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about Nicholas Fogg’s new biography of Shakespeare, … Continue reading →

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The case for Anne Hathaway

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

Last week I attended a lecture in which the speaker said, with a laugh, that according to Stephen Greenblatt and others Shakespeare left Stratford in order to get away from his wife. I bristled. Why, when it wasn’t relevant to the … Continue reading →

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