Sinatra: Behind the Legend Mel Cooper 19/02/2016 3942Not Quite Totally Frank To celebrate the 100th birthday of Frank Sinatra, J Randy Taraborrelli has revised and updated his...
Maggie Smith: A Biography Mel Cooper 09/12/2015 4388In many ways this is not so much a biography of Maggie Smith as it is a catalogue raisonné of...
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II Mel Cooper 08/12/2015 3880Anyone interested in Schiller’s play Don Carlos, or in the great Verdi opera based upon it, must be curious about...
The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis Mel Cooper 20/11/2015 6125René Weis has done an excellent job in telling us that story, backing it up with convincing scholarship and placing...
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present René Weis FRSA 12/10/2015 4718Michael Billington’s selection of his top 101 plays, from Antiquity to the Present, is a treat worthy of Trimalchio. Surely...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe René Weis FRSA 01/10/2015 4452Shakespeare is the world’s global literary brand, as popular in Africa, America, and Asia as he is in Europe. For...
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 3398ohn Lahr is a respected critic and biographer and in his latest book, a definitive life of Tennessee Williams, he...
Allen Shawn, Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician (Jewish Lives) Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 4386llen Shawn’s new book about Leonard Bernstein probably doesn’t replace the magisterial Humphrey Burton tome about the polymath’s extraordinary life,...
Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 4239ver Christmas, three books about entertainment folk kept me enthralled, engaged and informed. The first of these was the haunting...
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, edited by René Weis Tom Aitken 10/02/2015 3361his is a wide-ranging, seriously argued and expertly presented exploration of Shakespeare’s tragedy about youngsters locked in a doomed love...
