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 ma