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"Shakespeare was for all time because he was for his own age, with an intensity blazing so fiercely that it illuminates the far future. He remains real because he spoke so truthfully of, from and for his own experience, in his own person. That touch of nature suffuses his work throughout its various aspects and genres, whether comedy, history or tragedy, poetry or prose. He writes always of the here and now, never of the there and then."

 

(The Real Shakespeare II, p. 59)

 

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Collected Essays, Reviews and Letters

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WORKS ON SHAKESPEARE I (published materials)

 

j) books  k) plays edited and re-attributed to Shakespeare by E.S. 

l) contributions to books  m) essays, reviews, letters

                                                       

 

J) BOOKS

 

1. The Real Shakespeare. Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594, Yale 1995
[pp.xvi, 256; ISBN 0300061293]  [1]  [2]  [3] [A Review]
2. The Real Shakespeare II. Retrieving the Later Years, 1594-1616
[Centro Studi Eric Sams, 2008, rev. 2009; e-book, pp. 596] 
     E-BOOK (3 MB .pdf)
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k) PLAYS EDITED AND RE-ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKESPEARE BY ERIC SAMS

 

1. Shakespeare's Edmund Ironside. The lost play, Fourth Estate, 1985; Wildwood House, rev. 1986
  [pp. xvi, 383; ISBN 0 7045 0547 9]  [1]  [2]  [3] [First Perf.] [Anthony Burgess on E.I.]
   
2. Shakespeare's Edward III. The early play restored to the canon, Yale 1996
  [pp. 242; ISBN 0 300 06626 0] [1]  [2]  [3] [The Guardian on EIII] [A Review]

 

L) CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

 

1.

Foreword (?2002-3) to Michael Egan, The Tragedy of Richard II: A Newly Authenticated Play by W.S.,
 

Mellen Press 2006 [pre-edited text]
2.

Shakespeare's Language and I Richard II, id.

 

 

M) ESSAYS, REVIEWS, LETTERS

 
  (TLS = Times Literary Supplement; N&Q = Notes and Queries; LRB = London Review of Books;
  THES = Times Higher Education Supplement; NYRB = New York Review of Books; HamS = Hamlet Studies;
  SQ = Shakespeare Quarterly; LLC = Literary and Linguistic Computing).

           

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 Notes & Queries essays and reviews

on the Oxford Journals website [OUP].

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. Review of Schoenbaum, Records and Images, Sunday Times, 10 May 1981.
2. Edmund Ironside: a reappraisal, TLS, 13 Aug. 1982, 879. [.PDF]
2a. [Letters in response to the article above, TLS, 3 Sept. 1982, (Fleissner and Xuereb) 947
  and 17 Sept. 1982 (Proudfoot), 1010]
3. Edmund Ironside (Letters in response to Fleissner, Xuereb and Proudfoot), TLS, 24 Sept.
  and 29 Oct. 1982.
4. Viewpoint: Shakespeare’s text and common sense, TLS, 2 Sept. 1983, 933-4. [.PDF]
5. Dating ‘The Shrew’, TLS letters 3 Aug. 1984, 869.
6. WS His Marks, The Times letters, 18 Oct. 1984, 15.
7. Editing Shakespeare, TLS letters, 1 and 22 Feb. 1985.
8. Dramatically Different, TLS, 22 March 1985.
9. The Timing of the 'Shrews', N&Q March 1985, 33-45. [OUP]
10. Pastoral Passions, Review of a performance of As you like it, TLS, 3 May 1985.
11. The Shakespeare mystery, Sunday Times, 5 May 1985.
12. Shakespeare’s 'Lost Years', TLS, 17 May 1985.
13. Play on Words passes the test, Observer, 19 Jan. 1986.
14. The 'Lost' Shakespeare, Sunday Times, 2 Feb. 1986
15. The bard’s play: Taylor’s U-turn, Sunday Times, 16 Feb. 1986.
  [In response to Gary Taylor's Review of Edmund Ironside, ST 9 Feb.] See also q.2.
16. Shakespeare nods, LRB letters, 6 March 1986, 4.
17. Edmund Ironside, TLS letters, 9 May 1986.
18. Review of Thompson, A. (ed., The Taming of the Shrew), N&Q ccxxxi, June 1986, 222-3.
19. Attrib. Shakespeare, Spectator, 3 May, 21 June 1986.
20. Right Playwright, THES, 1 Aug. 1986.
21. Shakespeare’s Will, TLS, 21 Nov. 1986, 1311.
22. Edmund Ironside, NYRB, 7 May 1987
  [In response to E.A.J. Honigmann's Review of Edmund Ironside, NYRB 12 Feb. 1987]
23. Where There’s a Will... The Oxford or the Stratford Shakespeare?, Encounter lxix/ 1 June 1987,
  54-7. [.PDF]
24. Revisionist Shakespeare, Oxford Magazine 25, 1987, 7; 27, 1987, 15. [See also r.5]
25. The Troublesome Wrangle over King John, N&Q ccxxxiii, 1988, 41-4. [OUP]
25a. id. [pre-print text, with variants] [.PDF]
26. Oxford Shakespeare, LRB letters, 18 May 1988.

      

 

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27. Taboo or not Taboo? The Text, Dating and Authorship of ‘Hamlet’, 1589-1623,
  HamS 10, i-ii, Summer-Winter 1988, 12-46. [.PDF]
28. Review of Ule, L. (A Textual Concordance to the Shakespeare Apocrypha),
  N&Q ccxxxiii, 1988, 372-3. [OUP]
29. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, TLS 11-17 Nov. 1988, 1251.
30. Steering a Star Vehicle, review of a Richard II performance, TLS, 9-15 Dic 1988, 1290.
31. Word-links in Shakespeare Authorship Studies, LLC iii, 1988, 205-6. [OUP]
32. Shakespeare or Bottom? The Myth of ‘Memorial Reconstruction’, Encounter lxxii/1, Jan. 1989, 41-5.
33. Aggro at Agincourt, TLS, 24 Feb.-2 March 1989, 196.
34. ‘A Plague o’ Both Your Houses’, Encounter lxxii/4, April 1989 58-60. [.PDF]
35. Reply to Foster's review of Ironside, SQ 40, 1989, 252-3.
36. Shakespeare Studies, TLS letters, 8-14, Sept. 1989. [see also illustration above]
37. Review of McGee, A. (The Elizabethan Hamlet), N&Q ccxxxiv, 1989, 99-100.
38. Fatal Fallacy, Encounter lxxiv/1, Jan.-Feb. 1990, 62-4
  [In response to Revenge-Plays & Editors, by Shanti Padhi; ibid., 59-61]
39. Mistaken Methodology, LRB, 14 June 1990, 4-5; 28 June 1990.
40. Prestige and Profit: Gary Taylor’s Shakespeare, Encounter lxxv/1, July-Aug. 1990, 57-8.
41. Review of essays on Sir Thomas More, N&Q ccxxxv, 1990, 464-5. [OUP]
42. Plain-Speaking in Illyria, Review of a Twelfth Night performance, TLS, 29 March 1991, 16.
43. Assays of Bias, N&Q ccxxxvi, 1991, 60-63 [.PDF]
44. The Painful Misadventures of ‘Pericles’ Acts I-II, N&Q ccxxxvi, 1991, 67-70 [.PDF]
45. Review of Craik (ed., Merry Wives of Windsor), N&Q ccxxxvi, 1991, 219-20.
46. ‘If you have tears…’: Onions and Shakespeare, Connotations 1, 1991, 181-6. [.PDF]
47. Shakespeare and the Oxford Imprint, TLS, 6 March 1992, 13. [.PDF]
48. The play’s the thing, THES, 3 July 1992.
49. A Documentary Life?, TLS 12 Feb. 1993, 13. [.PDF]
50. Mrs. Shakespeare, TLS letters, 19 Feb. 1993.
51. Mrs. Shakespeare, TLS letters, 5 March 1993 [in response to Nye].
52. Mrs. Shakespeare, TLS letters, 19 March 1993 [in response to Freeman and Nye].
53. Oldcastle and the Oxford Shakespeare, N&Q ccxxxviii, 1993, 180-85
54. The hand of a lawyer’s clerk?, TLS, 24 Dec. 1993, 4-5. [.PDF]
55. Review of Holderness-Loughrey (ed., Hamlet 1603, The taming of the Shrew 1594),
  N&Q ccxxxvi, 1994, 93-4. [OUP]
56. Review of Hattaway (ed., 1-3 Henry VI), N&Q ccxxxvi, 1994, 242-3. [OUP]
57. Edmund Ironside and "Stylometry", N&Q ccxxxix, 1994, 469-72. [OUP]
58.

Review of Forse (Art imitates Business), N&Q ccxl, 1995, 94-5
59. Bard Barb, THES, 14 July 1995 [In response to Ann Thompson's Review of The Real Shakespeare, ibid., 23 June 1995].
60. Hamnet or Hamlet, That is the Question, HamS, 17, i-ii, Summer-Winter 1995, 94-8. [.PDF]
61. ‘My Name’s Hamlet, Revenge’: Why Two Dutchmen have the answer to the riddle
  of Shaksp.’s early 'Hamlet', TLS, 22 Sept. 1995, 18. [.PDF]
62. Review of Hope (The Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays), N&Q ccxl, 1995, 486-7.
63. Reply to Levitt, TLS letters 6 Oct. 1995.
64. Reply to Weis, London Quarterly letters, Sept.-Nov. 1995.
65. Review of Irace (Reforming the 'Bad' Quartos), N&Q ccxli, 1996, 211-12 [OUP]
66. Rebuttal of Smith (Edmund Ironside: Scholarship versus Propaganda, N&Q ccxl, 1995, 295),
  N&Q ccxliii, 1996, 307.
67. The Shakespeare Arms: a quatercentenary contribution, TLS 18 Oct. 1996. [.PDF]
68. Shakespearean Assertions, TLS letters 15 Nov. 1996.
69. Reply to Elton (Shakespearean Assertions), TLS letters 20 Dec. 1996.
70. Shakespeare's Hand in the Copy for the 1603 First Quarto of 'Hamlet', HamS 20, i-ii,
  Summer-Winter 1998, 80-89. [.PDF]
71. Review of Bloom (Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human), Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 1998.
72. Who was the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnet 86?, Connotations 8.1, 1998/99. [.PDF]
73. King Leir and Edmund Ironside, N&Q xlviii, 2001. [.PDF]
73a. [pre-print text with variants]
74. Letter about Jeffrey Kahan's Review of Edward III, ShN Winter 2001/2002, 82.

 

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