Publishing Company Blog: Academic performs 500-tweet hatchet job on new study of Shakespeare

Professor Holger Syme of the University of Toronto turns to microblogging to air damning verdict on Sir Brian Vickers’s The One King Lear

Rather than sounding off in the letters pages of the Times Literary Supplement, a professor at the University of Toronto has taken to the less genteel world of Twitter to unleash an extraordinary tirade of more than 500 tweets attacking a new book on King Lear.