"Oh for a muse of fire that would ascend this brightest heaven of invention"

[RJUKL]

Anyone else "not get" Shakespeare? I can't be doing with it. For A levels it is necessary to buy paperbacks explaining the meaning etc. Load of piffle. And what is more there is not record of William Shakespeare apparently having left aything in his Will and only one or two signatures spelled differently. Nothing left and no proof that he ever travelled abroad. Methinks Francis Bacon conspiracy.

[Sandy-Wroe]

Lear is something special, whoever wrote it.

[craft1948]

I was very relieved that my 'O' level year was the first time, as far as I'm aware, that you didn't have to 'do' a Shakespeare play. Having said that I found Sheridan's The Rivals nearly as bad.

[boxtops]

whoever Shakespeare was, he had a remarkable insight into human nature - something you just don't have the experience to comprehend when it's dinned into you at school. I know I didn't.

[Everhelpful]

I've just read his latest book, not very good.