I am a firm believer in reading eclectically and daily. Over the past couple of days I’ve been revisiting a book by the British historian A. L. Rowse titled The Use of History, which was first ...

A.L. Rowse remarked in his masterpiece, The England of Elizabeth, that "Human egoism is the greatest motive force in the world." In his claims for his biography of Shakespeare, Rowse has stretched the ...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by A. L. Rowse. 485 pages. Harper & Row. $6.95. Not a single letter from Shakespeare is known to exist. Only one letter to him—a plea from a Stratford acquaintance for £30—is on ...

Shakespeare wrote a lot of sonnets. Hundreds, actually. This, of course, led people to believe they couldn’t all be about his wife. Because, c’mon. In the 1970s English historian A.L. Rowse claimed to ...

THE CHURCHILLS (430 pp.)—A. L. Rowse—Harper ($7.50). Britain’s A. L. Rowse is to history what C. S. Forester is to fiction. Rowse heroes—Sir Francis Drake, Sir Richard Grenville, Sir Winston Churchill ...