MixedThe Wall Street JournalThis is a dog’s dinner of a book, poorly written, often banal, a hundred pages too long, and marked by a peculiar, regrettable absence of the actors and stage hands. They are referenced, lauded, but voiceless ... Yet this is nevertheless a winning book. 'It is perfectly possible to be garrulous and to conceal,' Mr. Dromgoole says of Hamlet. It could be his own mantra.
