If you've ever fallen in love with the wrong person, been held back by your insecurities, endured the pressures of family, dealt with the loss of a loved one, or fought to overcome obsessive behaviours in yourself or in others, then you've participated in the folly of life. In other words, you've undertaken a role in the high drama - and comedy - of a Shakespeare play. Covering such universal subjects as identity, the battle of the sexes, family relationships, love, loss and death, Maguire shows how the dilemmas illustrated in the bard's classic tragedies, comedies and histories can help readers explore their own emotions and judgements. Together, Maguire and Shakespeare offer suggestions, comfort, empathy, and encouragement as they set out a timeless principle for living. To read Shakespeare is to understand what it means to be human. To read "Where There's a Will There's a Way" is to better understand how to deal with it.
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"A delightful book like no other book on the bard you can buy....
entertaining, illuminating, and really readable it is also brilliantly
original." -- Michael Wood, author and presenter of In Search of Shakespeare
"Funny, wise and accessible...lovely." -- Wendy Lestina, author of 100 Things I'm Not Going to Do Now that I'm Over 50
"This book tells you a lot about how Shakespeare works and along
the way gives you some valuable tips about how to live your life. Or do I
mean that this book tells you the art of living and along the way it helps
you to read Shakespeare? Both, I guess, so two thumbs up for Laurie
Maguire."
-- Professor Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare
"This is Shakespeare that the Oprah generation can grab hold of.
Dr Maguire offers a lively guide to what bits of the Bard to read in which
personal crisis." -- Damien Whitworth, The Times, 11th April 2007
entertaining, illuminating, and really readable it is also brilliantly
original." -- Michael Wood, author and presenter of In Search of Shakespeare
"Funny, wise and accessible...lovely." -- Wendy Lestina, author of 100 Things I'm Not Going to Do Now that I'm Over 50
"This book tells you a lot about how Shakespeare works and along
the way gives you some valuable tips about how to live your life. Or do I
mean that this book tells you the art of living and along the way it helps
you to read Shakespeare? Both, I guess, so two thumbs up for Laurie
Maguire."
-- Professor Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare
"This is Shakespeare that the Oprah generation can grab hold of.
Dr Maguire offers a lively guide to what bits of the Bard to read in which
personal crisis." -- Damien Whitworth, The Times, 11th April 2007
About the Author
Laurie Maguireis a Fellow at Magdalen College,Oxford where she teaches English Literature. She is the author or editor of three books on Shakespeare including Studying Shakespeareand has written numerous articles on Elizabethan drama,womens' studies and theatre.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By JG
Format:Hardcover
Where There's a Will is fantastic! It's an extremely intelligent and warm book - a great New Year's read. Full of fascinating insights about love (requited and unrequited), grief, forgiveness and the power of the imagination, it will teach you how Shakespeare can help you through the toughest times and appreciate the best. The jokes are really funny too! And everyone should have a nephew like Adam (see chapter 6)!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Juliet Platt
Format:Paperback
This book is a delightful mix of academic critique and down-to-earth commentary, demonstrating how what we read/see/hear in Shakespeare is as relevant to modern life as it has ever been. In fact, as the book encourages us to think, in our self-help obsessed culture, it may be more relevant than ever.
Laurie Maguire writes with remarkable and endearing honesty about her own experience, and uses it to bear out the key messages from Shakespeare in a very humourous way. She is clearly passionate about the Bard, and writes articulately about her topic.
Maguire also champions a return to appreciating character within modern critique, as a way of understanding better the original intentions of the writer, and as a way of gaining insight into the contemporary inner life of men and women.
The end section of the book lists the main lessons we might learn from revisiting Shakepseare - the most telling one for me being how we need to use our imaginations better in order to tackle life's ups and downs.
On the strength of this book I am determined to go and see some more Shakespeare - and to take my kids to it too.
Laurie Maguire writes with remarkable and endearing honesty about her own experience, and uses it to bear out the key messages from Shakespeare in a very humourous way. She is clearly passionate about the Bard, and writes articulately about her topic.
Maguire also champions a return to appreciating character within modern critique, as a way of understanding better the original intentions of the writer, and as a way of gaining insight into the contemporary inner life of men and women.
The end section of the book lists the main lessons we might learn from revisiting Shakepseare - the most telling one for me being how we need to use our imaginations better in order to tackle life's ups and downs.
On the strength of this book I am determined to go and see some more Shakespeare - and to take my kids to it too.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I've been around for 70 years and studying and working as a professional actor for 50 of them, many at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Laurie Maguire's book is intelligent, scholarly, insightful and in a non-pedantic way, refreshingly open minded. All the world is a stage, of course, and Ms Maguire shows us how Shakespeare can help us negotiate our way through life. Ms Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where she teaches English literature. I hope her students realise how lucky they are.
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