In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room.Within...

The first night of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, on 8 May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. From then on, Sheridan was launched into eighteenth-century society,...

The originality of the study lies in the degree to which Ms Kelly has achieved something like a group biography... not a series of linked portraits, but the evocation of an entire emotional milieu. --...

"One of the best books on the Grateful Dead." —Rolling StoneJust what was it about the Grateful Dead that made them rock and roll’s most beloved band? In Deadheads, those with the real story, who were...