11 MAY 1985, page 31

A Birth

As slowly they collapse with strokes, cancers, booze, the ones who dandled us, our warm life falls apart, an eggshell; what comes out is us, at best cadet wrinklies, fledgling......

Shakespeare And Non-historians

A. L. Rowse Shakespeare's Theatre Peter Thomson (RKP £6.95) Q hakespeareans who are not historians are mesmerised by what they call his lost years'. They do not realise that......