I wanted to like this book but sadly found it lacking. It feels like it's the ramblings of a former newspaper columnist who's lost his job and is now taking to filling his time supposedly talking on one subject (Shakespeare in this case) whilst mainly rambling on about life in general over the past 20 or so years and then occasionally throwing a Shakespeare reference in there to try to justify why the book has the title it does. As someone who's devoured all of Shakespeare's plays and seen them on the stage also, I felt this book a poor tribute to the genius he was. I feel as though there may be a market for this book from people going to the beach who want to appear slightly highbrow with their reading material, whilst also not actually being mentally stimulated, but for anyone actually interested in Shakespeare, this is not the book for you I received an ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review