personal trenchancy and he also imposed his personality on his times, rising to collaborate with Inigo Jones on the great masques that enchanted the Stuart Court. He was also rather more than a man of what he called "the loathed stage". Unlike Shakespeare, he edited his own works, which were much more than a collection of plays at a time when plays had the status that television has now -- people knew they could be works of genius but they had no steady respectability.[Ian] Donaldson is superb in the way he traces the shapes and peaks of a career that was the medium for a supreme artistry.
from The Sydney Morning Herald: In Shakespeare's shadow
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