Literary Contributor

Peter Dickson

1 article 2004

Peter Dickson contributed to The Weekly Standard, where he wrote about literature and theater. His work for the magazine included commentary on Shakespeare's Roman plays.

The Roman Plays?

February 16, 2004 · Magazine, Books and Arts

AS FASCINATION with Shakespeare's dramas and poems endures, the desire to know more about the inner life of the greatest literary figure in the English language intensifies--though scholars have always failed to satisfy it, because "there is no evidence, you know." That was the pithy response of…