Shakespearean

Resumen del libro

When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became his 'book of life', an endless source of inspiration through which he could embark on 'journeys of the mind', and see a reflection of our own disrupted times.

An acclaimed writer and journalist, McCrum has spent the last twenty-five years immersed in Shakespeare's work, on stage and on the page. During this prolonged exploration, Shakespeare's poetry and plays, so vivid and contemporary, have become his guide and consolation. In Shakespearean he asks: why is it that we always return to Shakespeare, particularly in times of acute crisis and dislocation? What is the key to his hold on our imagination? And why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?

Shakespearean is a rich, brilliant and superbly drawn portrait of an extraordinary artist, one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Through an enthralling narrative, ranging widely in time and space, McCrum seeks to understand Shakespeare within his historical context while also exploring the secrets of literary inspiration, and examining the nature of creativity itself. Witty and insightful, he makes a passionate and deeply personal case that Shakespeare's words and ideas are not just enduring in their relevance - they are nothing less than the eternal key to our shared humanity.

Biografía del autor

Robert McCrum es escritor; su libro anterior, Shakespearean, se publicó con gran éxito en 2021. También es autor de The Story of English (1986), Wodehouse: A Life (2004) y sus ya clásicas memorias, My Year Off. Cuando era editor jefe de Faber x{0026} Faber publicó, entre otros autores, a Paul Auster, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marilynne Robinson, Lorrie Moore, Hanif Kureishi y Milan Kundera. Posteriormente fue editor literario de The Observer entre 1996 y 2008.