Literary Studies

Learning not to run

Item: Shakespeare the Thinker
Author: Ian Donaldson

by Ian Donaldson •

February 2008, no. 298

Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall

Yale University Press, $59.95 hb, 428 pp

Literary Studies

Learning not to run

by Ian Donaldson •

February 2008, no. 298

Shakespeare the Thinker is the final and posthumously published book of the Oxford critic A.D. Nuttall, who died unexpectedly in January 2007. Pitched at a wider readership than most of his earlier writings, the book is the culmination of Nuttall’s lifetime thinking about Shakespeare, and the work by which his remarkable originality as a critic will no doubt be most widely recognised.

Ian Donaldson

Ian Donaldson is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (2012), and author of Ben Jonson: A Life (2011). He was the Oxford theatre reviewer for The Guardian (London) for a decade.