What I Read in April 2026 – And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart

Thomas Mann filled a lot of my time, alongside the non-Shakespearian stuff. Just two plays to go in this round, George Chapman’s All Fools and John Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan . NOT SHAKESPEARE Selected Poems (1593-1630), Michael Drayton – The line in the title is from his sonnet 61 , among the few that really stand with Shakespeare’s best. How many great poems must one write to be a great poet?…