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 | | When Joseph Banks sailed for Tahiti with Captain James Cook, in 1768, he was well funded and well equipped. The result was an abundance of fresh botanical evidence that would eventually enrich the British empire and, as Jim Endersby shows, vindicate Banks's belief in Linnaeus's system of plant classification. |
 | | Revisionist historians have questioned the extent to which Stalin was fully in control of the Politburo and the secret police. Donald Rayfield welcomes the new research from the archives that shows how absolutely he shaped and controlled the Soviet machine. |
 | | The Chamberlain's Men might have had the "masterpieces of a great dramatist" to perform - ie, Shakespeare's plays - but the Admiral's Men had "Marlowe's crowd-pulling plays, with the unmatched star Edward Alleyn to act them". Were they the more original and theatrically brilliant theatre company? Alastair Fowler assesses Andrew Gurr's latest work.
In the rest of the paper, you will find new poems by Peter Reading and Stephen Knight, Ronald Blythe in Radnorshire, aristocrats versus revolutionaries and, last but not least, In Brief. |
commentary "I think no ill one": A recently discovered letter from the actor Thomas Betterton, David Roberts reveals, supports the case for the authenticity of the Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare.
Michael Greenberg dreams of giving advice; Then and Now turns back to Joseph Brodsky's review of the biography of Anthony Blunt. NB reports on the law siding with J. D. Salinger, the "thriving micro-market" of Cornish literature and classic poetry babble.
On the Letters page, the subjects are How to invade Afghanistan, George Orwell, Artistic education, inter alia.
In this week's Up and Coming, Rupert Shortt looks forward to the publication of a new book on Latin American politics.
For a chance to win tickets for the National Theatre's production of The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi, click here.
arts Reviving Marlowe: Laurie Maguire considers the other genius of Elizabethan drama. Judith Flanders sees theatre take a twentieth-century step foward; Keith Miller participates in the Manchester International Festival; and Roz Kaveney misses a word at the Soho Theatre.
In the next issue of the TLS Michael Gorra
Alice Munro's disconcerting moves
Margaret Drabble
Arnold Bennett, modernist?
Wesley Stace
Run for your life, Bob Dylan
Michael Rosen
G. A. Cohen and justice
