Shakespeare's Daughters

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Summary: A knowledge of Shakespeare and human nature
Review: Sharon Hamilton evidently knows her way around the works of William Shakespeare and, as she demonstrates in this analysis of Shakespearean depictions of father/daughter relations, around human nature in the raw. Any reading or re-reading of the plays will be immeasurably enhanced by the insights she winkles out. This is a book that thespians especially will benefit by.
Happily Ms. Hamilton's attempt to equate the English language's greatest wordsmith with a certain Will Shakspere of Stratford - a dreary and litigious businessman and one-time actor scarcely able to write his own name and sire incidentally of two apparently illiterate daughters - detracts but little from this invigorating volume.