Topic: Brenda James

Wrong about Shakespeare

In Lloyd Evans's review of Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate (Arts, 1 November) he declares that 'all dons' are potentially bores because they 'know too much about too little'. I have just finished reading Brenda James's The Truth ...

Dark and creepy

THE FOLIO BOOK OF HISTORICAL MYSTERIES edited by Ian Pindar 24.95 (plus 3.95 p& So why, then, ask James and Rubinstein, did Shakespeare not have a grand funeral when he died? Furthermore, they say it can't have been Francis ...