Joanna Weinberg

Millers Point Songbook is a play performed in the Garrison Church during May, and it tracks the lives and stories of the people of Millers Point, Sydney, and the history of Sydney itself. In words and music, the characters of Millers Point come to life. Residents from Colonial times to the present are portrayed, including Captain Grimes and Mary Underwood;...

Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar's already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) is known to us through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot's Middlemarch. But in this book, the real Casaubon emerges as a genuine literary hero, an intrepid explorer in...