Mention in Today's Books/ Bookweek

Reviewed by Peter J. Smith in Times Higher Education Supplement, 2008.

"the conjoined pieces of Turner's book provide a fresh double reading of A Midsummer Night's dream. The book's imbricated left face/right face presentation makes every page mirror, echo or pre-empt themes from the opposite essay. In this year of Darwin's birth, the Globe Theatre's 2009 takes A Midsummer Night's dream on a national tour. Shakespeare Now! seems thus doubtly apt." Flux Magazine, 1 July 2009

Tim Huntley

"...both an eye-catching attempt to assert Shakespearian contemporaneity and a genuine reflection of aspects of the volume's content...has a definite novelty value in the context of Shakespearian criticism, and it is raised above the merely gimmicky here by the highly apposite image that Turner finds for his title...a very readable, clear and informative quick overview of the development of modern genetic research...there is much interesting and stimulating comment in Turner's study, and the book itself ins undeniably memorable and thought-provoking." Oxford Journals Clippings: The Year's Work in English Studies, 2009

"The ambitious project of the Shakespeare NOW series is to bridge the gap between 'scholarly thinking and a public audience' and 'public audience and scholarly thinking'. Scholars are encouraged to write in a way accessible to a general readership and readers to rise to the challenge and not be afraid of new ideas and the adventure they offer. There are other bridges the series is ambitious to cross: 'formal, political or theoretical boundaries' - history and philosophy, theory, and performance." English Vol. 58, 2009

"In Turner's text past, present and the 'posthuman future' come together and Francis Bacon, Philip Sydney, and Bottom rub shoulders playfully with Richard Dawkins, Roland Barthes, and Puck." English Vol. 58, 2009