Book review - Dowland (by K Dawn Grapes)

Fabrice Fitch
Friday, May 16, 2025

'Grapes steers us enjoyably through the vagaries of Dowland’s life, with thumbnail sketches of its principal staging-posts'

Oxford University Press, 280pp, HB, £25.99

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