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Robert S. White

Robert S. White

Robert S. White is the Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia. His most recent book is Shakespeare's Cinema of Love (2016).

Robert S. White reviews 'How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and succession in the history plays' by Peter Lake

November 2017, no. 396 26 October 2017
Sir Philip Sidney in the 1580s proclaimed the superiority of the creative maker of ‘poesy’ over the moralising philosopher and historian – ‘the historian wanting the precept, is so tied, not to what should be, but to what is; to the particular truth of things, and not to the general reason of things; that his example draweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a less fruitful doctrine. ... (read more)