preface

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If ever the Shakespearean warning about those who “doth protest too much” seemed apt, Skandalakis’ overly long preface to his motion surely qualifies.

From Salon

In a preface, the film director Guillermo del Toro likens this collection to early modern cabinets of curiosities, whose juxtapositions of natural and artificial objects were meant to expose a hidden order of existence.

From The Wall Street Journal

Channeling Nochlin, she eschews the authoritarian language of “greatness,” prefacing many of her assertions with “to me….” She has an eye for the anecdotal aside.

From Los Angeles Times

I contributed a preface to a paperback reissue of Samuel Schoenbaum’s definitive “Shakespeare’s Lives” and regard Irving Matus’s evidence-based “Shakespeare, in Fact” as a cogent refutation of the principal arguments for the Earl of Oxford.

From Washington Post

"So, for the first time there will be a preface to the Oath."

From BBC