''Returning to Shakespeare'' is a non-fiction book written by

Brian Vickers Brian Lee Vickers (born October 24, 1983) is an American former professional stock car and sports car racing driver. He last drove the No. 14 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing as an interim driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for the i ...

the literary scholar, and published by

Routledge Routledge ( ) is a British multinational corporation, multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, academic journals, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanit ...

, London, in 1989. The book's main focus is a collection of previously published critical essays by Vickers pertaining to

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

. The book is also prefaced with an extensive autobiographical sketch that details Vickers' evolution within Shakespearean scholarship.Snow, H. J. Schaffer. "Book review" Renaissance Studies. vol. 5, no. 4, 1991. pp. 461–463. JSTOR, . Accessed September 4, 2021.Schmidgall, Gary. "Book review". Shakespeare Bulletin. vol. 8, no. 4. 1990. pp. 42–42. . Accessed September 4, 2021.McGuire, Philip C. "Book review".

Shakespeare Quarterly ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' is a Peer review, peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1950 by the Shakespeare Association of America. It is now under the auspices of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Along with book and performance criticism, '' ...

, vol. 43, no. 2, 1992, pp. 237–239 (3 pages). JSTOR. . Accessed September 4, 2021.

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