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Michael Caines

Michael Caines works at the Times Literary Supplement. He has edited an anthology of plays by 18th-century women, is editing a book about the 18th-century actor David Garrick, and one day may finish his book about something called the Battle of the Romeos

August 2020

  • Deirdre Le Faye’s day job for more than half of her 40 years of Austen research was as an administrator in the British Museum’s department of medieval and later antiquities.

    Deirdre Le Faye obituary

    Scholar of Jane Austen who edited the author’s family record, chronology and letters with minimal recourse to interpretation

April 2017

  • Roy Fisher

    Roy Fisher obituary

    English modernist poet whose work was rooted in his home town, Birmingham

September 2015

  • pj kavanagh

    PJ Kavanagh obituary

    Poet, actor, broadcaster and author of the memoir The Perfect Stranger

July 2010

  • Nigella with cheesecake

    Summer recipes
    Summer recipes: puddings and drinks

    Round things off with Delia's vanilla cream terrine, Nigella's cheesecake in a glass and Marcus Wareing's gin and tonic granita, plus a whole lot more besides including some wine recommendations from Victoria Moore

April 2010

  • Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love

    Theatre blog
    Shakespeare biographies: the good, the Bard and the ugly

    Michael Caines: Shakespeare has inspired a lot of wonky scholarship from his biographers - a source of much fun for the connoisseur of snobbery and ignorance

December 2008

  • John Milton and William Shakespeare

    Books blog
    Milton versus Shakespeare

    Michael Caines: Could it be that we picked the inferior writer as our national poet?

September 2008

  • Covers from recent editions of little-known classics

    Books blog
    Cashing in on classic literature

    Michael Caines: Publishers who rescue forgotten classics are just being lazy

October 2007

  • A little place I know
    A little place i know

  • Books blog
    How printing on demand benefits the few and the many

April 2007

  • Theatre blog
    Let's try to preserve performances online

    I can't remember how many plays I've forgotten. Maybe bloggers can come to my rescue?

March 2007

  • Theatre blog
    Interesting times

    Anthony Neilson says playwrights should avoid being boring. But how?

  • Theatre blog
    National lampoon

    Every move the National Theatre makes is greeted by cheers and boos alike. Does this mean it's doing its job?

  • Theatre blog
    Why does Edward Albee hate directors?

    The author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? recently laid into those who 'distort' his plays. I suspect he hasn't met his match.

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