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From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' How does one survive the death of a loved one, the mess of war, the experience of being schooled, of falling in love, of growing old, of losing your mind? Shakespeare's world is never too far different from our own - permeated with the same tragedies, the same existential questions and domestic worries. In this extraordinary book, Jonathan Bate brings then and now together. He investigates the moments of his own life and asks whether, if you persevere with Shakespeare, he can offer a word of wisdom or a human insight for any time or any crisis. He observes the constant reminders from this writer that what's to come is always still unsure, and traces whether his education in Shakespeare did him any good at the worst moment of his life. This is a book about writers through time, about the black dog of depression, about the unexpected journey and about the lines that echo through time, resonating with us all at one point or another
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