My long time fascination with Shakespeare started a long time ago when I was attending the British Council. I won’t dwell on it again. In this “Living with Shakespeare” I didn’t get much on Hamlet, but I kept thinking about Hamlet's five soliloquies; the humour and poignancy of Kent's words in Kin...
Living With Shakespeare is a collection of essays by various folk, ranging from academics and authors to actors and directors, and even a scientist, about their relationship with WS. As you would expect, some were very interesting; others, not. Most fell between those two extremes. What follows is n...
Loved it.33 writers (some of them great) on why they love or read Jane Austen. They disagree on which book is the best, which heroine is the most developed, which ending the most true. It was wonderful to immerse myself in reading the intelligent and sometimes witty thoughts of others who apprecia...