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Around the World: UK, Seeing/Reading Shakespeare in Brexit

from the Guardian Brexit, pursued by a bear: Boris Johnson shelves his Shakespeare biography Originally scheduled for an October release, Johnson’s Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius has been put on ice due to its author’s new commitments Zounds! S’blood! BoJo’s Bard biog shuffles off this mortal coil! On Monday it was announced that Boris Johnson’s widely anticipated biography of Shakespeare is on ice, indefinitely. Originally scheduled for release this October – rather late for the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death back in April – Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius “will not be published for the foreseeable future”, says its publisher, Hodder & Stoughton. Regrettably for those inclined to schadenfreude, they declined to confirm reports that Johnson will be forced to pay back his advance. Et tu, Boris, et cetera. Among professional Shakespeareans – think the conspirators in Julius Caesar, only with sharper daggers – there has been a mixture of glee and remorse. ...

Library booklist (H:cN1)

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The Council and Reunion Hans Kung Who's Who in Shakespeare Robin May Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Mary McCarthy   Child of My Heart Alice McDermott     Enter Isabel: The Herman Melville Correspondence of Clare Spark and Paul Metcalf Paul Metcalf   T. S. Eliot Poet A. D. Moody  

Library Booklist (H:P5)

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Lamentations of the Father by Ian Frazier Profession of Medicine by Eliot Freidson  Spike Milligan by Humphrey Carpenter  Contested Will by James Shapiro  Recording My Life by Isabella Wallich  Willa Cather: A Literary Life by James Woodress  

Library booklist (H:P2)

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Wuthering Heights Emile Bronte  The Other Side Mary Gordon  The Messiah of Morris Avenue Tony Hendra  Love and Modern Medicine Peri Klass  Various Pets Alive and Dead Marina Lewycka  Beloved Toni Morrison  The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan   Sir Thomas More William Shakespeare  The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash  

Books sorted (William Shakespeare)

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L:cLB5, H:aB1, L:gSub, H:cStb, H:cSt Hamlet by William Shakespeare  Coriolanus by William Shakespeare  Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare  The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare  Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare  The Soul of Age by Jonathan Bate The Tempest by William Shakespeare   The Sonnets by William Shakespeare Richard II by William Shakespeare

Library Booklist (H:aB1)

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The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou The Soul of Age by Jonathan Bate Anthony Powell by Neil Brennan The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek A Positively Final Appearance by Alec Guinness Conductors: A New Generation by Philip Hart Concerning E. M. Forster by Frank Kermode