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THE SHAKESPEAREAN WORLD
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Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption
‘Enchanting’ - Simon Russell Beale
‘Remarkable’ - James Shapiro
‘Wonderful . . . compulsively readable’ - Nicholas Hytner
Why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?
When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became his ‘book of life’, an endless source of inspiration through which he could embark on ‘journeys of the mind’, and see a reflection of our own disrupted times.
An acclaimed writer and journalist, McCrum has spent the last twenty-five years immersed in Shakespeare’s work, on stage and on the page. During this prolonged exploration, Shakespeare’s poetry and plays, so vivid and contemporary, have become his guide and consolation. In Shakespearean he asks: Why is it that we always return to Shakespeare, particularly in times of acute crisis and dislocation? What is the key to his hold on our imagination? And why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?
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