Blame it on Sappho
May 1, 2008Some of the natives of the Greek isle of Lesbos are restless.
They complain that persons of a certain sexuality should not be using their name.
It could be worse.
They could be Bulgars.
Archive for May 1st, 2008
Shakespeare’s Wife
May 1, 2008
Germain Greere: Shakespeare’s Wife. Harper Collins, New York, 2007
My public library is, to put it mildly, rather dilatory about getting in new books with any claim to scholarship higher than the latest political tell-all. So this book, a biography of Ann Hathaway (Dr. Greer prefers to Ann to Anne, Annis or Agnes) is a pleasant surprise–brand new!) Just for that reason I would have checked it out. (more…)
