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I’ve never read a book like this before: it’s challenging, irreverent and funny. * Roddy Doyle * Convincing, incisive and stimulating. * Independent on Sunday * A brilliant and extremely readable distillation of some of the current thinking about Shakespeare’s tragedies. * Irish Times * A lively and intelligent work of criticism...Shakespeare is hard, and O’Toole has valiantly refused to simplify him. * Michael Caines, TLS * A useful corrective to the philistine notion that Shakespeare must be simplified and domesticated so that people can understand him. * Steven Poole, Guardian * You’ll look at Shakespeare with new eyes after reading this book. * Sunday Herald *

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Fintan O'Toole is the bestselling author of We Don’t Know Ourselves, Heroic Failure, Ship of Fools, A Traitor's Kiss, White Savage and other acclaimed books. He is a columnist for the Irish Times and advising editor of the New York Review of Books. He has received the Silvers-Dudley Prize for Journalism, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize.

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