August Books 35) Soul of the Age: the Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare, by Jonathan Bate

[nwhyte]

I read Bates' earlier book, The Genius of Shakespeare, at the end of last year, and very much enjoyed it; this didn't grab me quite as much, but is still very good, concentrating on what Shakespeare's works tell us about his environment - cultural, political and intellectual - rather than on the man and his legacy as in the earlier book. It is

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[communicator]

In the same kind of vein as Bates, I recommend Shakespeare the Thinker by AD Nuttall