I pounced on this because I enjoyed/admired/appreciated Charles Nicholl's The Reckoning, about the murder of Christopher Marlowe, and because I was mad about Simon Vance's reading of Dust and Shadow. Those two, plus Shakespeare, indicated an instant win. Well… mostly. First of all, I'm going to tr...
I would prefer it if there was less about teaching methods.It might be about Educational Psychology, but we're not gonna become teachers... I liked very much the chapters that talk about cross-cultural classes and the 'differences' between the two genders.
Unabridged.In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. The case seems routine, a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry, but it opens an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure li...