Essays, reviews

I'm much obliged to Richard Sams for his proof-reading of the on-line edition and to Andrew Lamb for his valuable help in collecting the material. My grateful thanks to Daniel Paxton for providing free access to the essays and reviews on the Oxford Journals website [OUP].

(ST = Sunday Times; TLS = Times Literary Supplement; N&Q = Notes and Queries; LRB = London Review of Books; THES = Times Higher Education Supplement; Obs = The Observer; Spect = Spectator; Enc = Encounter; Conn = Connotations; NYRB = New York Review of Books; HamS = Hamlet Studies; SQ = Shakespeare Quarterly; LLC = Literary and Linguistic Computing; ShN = Shakespeare Newsletter)

Review of 'Richard II' (TLS 1988)
Word-links in Shakespeare Authorship Studies (LLC 1988)
Shakespeare, or Bottom? (Enc 1989)
Aggro at Agincourt (TLS 1989)
A Plague o' Both Your Houses (Enc 1989)
Reply to Foster's review of Ironside (SQ 1989)
Shakespeare Studies (TLS 1989)
Review of McGee (N&! 1989)
Fatal Fallacy (Enc. 1990)
Mistaken Methodology (LRB 1990)
Prestige and Profit. Review of Taylor (Enc. 1990)
Review of essays on Sir Thomas More (N&Q 1990)
Plain speaking in Illyria (TLS 1991)
Assays of Bias (N&Q 1991)
The Painful Misadventures of 'Pericles' Acts I-II (N&Q 1991)
Review of Craik (N&Q 1991)
"If you have tears...": Oxford and Onions (Conn. 1991)
Shakespeare and the Oxford Imprint (TLS 1992)
“The play's the thing...” (THES 1992)
Review of Nye (TLS 1993)
A Documentary Life? (TLS 1993)
Mrs Shakespeare (TLS 1993)
Mrs Shakespeare (Reply to Nye) (TLS 1993)
Mrs Shakespeare (Reply to Freeman and Nye) (TLS 1993)
Oldcastle and the Oxford Shakespeare (N&Q 1993)
The hand of a lawyer’s clerk? (TLS 1993)
Review of Holderness-Loughrey (N&Q 1994)
Review of Hattaway (N&Q 1994)
Edmund Ironside and "Stylometry" (N&Q 1994)
Review of Forse (N&Q 1995)
Bard Barb (THES 1995)
Hamnet or Hamlet, That is the Question (HamS 1995)
“My Name's Hamlet, Revenge” (TLS 1995)
Review of Hope (N&Q 1995)
Reply to Levitt (TLS 1995)
Reply to Weis (LQL 1995)
Review of Irace (N&Q 1996)
Rebuttal of Smith (N&Q 1996)
The Shakespeare Arms (TLS 1996)
Shakespearean Assertions (TLS 1996)
Reply to Elton (TLS 1996)
Shakespeare’s Hand in the Copy for the 1603 First Quarto of 'Hamlet' (HamS 1998)
Review of Bloom (LA Times 1998)
Who was the Rival Poet of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 86? (Conn. 1998-9)
Der Name Hamlet als Indiz (NShJ 1999)
King Leir and Edmund Ironside (N&Q 2001)
King Leir and Edmund Ironside [pre-print text with variants] (2001)
Letter about Jeffrey Kahan's Review of 'Edward III' (ShN 2002)