And all this is Shakespeare. The most erotic comedy, the most dramatic tragedy burning with shame of a man

The new reading of William Shakespeare from the famous Shakespeed Emma Smith. The book will help to see a provocative and still modern playwright in the great writer and will explain what makes his works relevant to this day.

A brilliant poet and a seer, in whose lines the fate of all mankind is reflected and foreseen. The creator of incredibly rich and complex metaphors. A master who had no equal among contemporaries and among descendants. And all this is Shakespeare? Almost.
But this is not the whole truth. Much of what we habitually talk about Shakespeare is incorrect or simply unimportant: these words are nothing more than a smoke curtain that distracts attention from Shakespearean defaults and inconsistencies. In the book of Emma Smith, the ambiguity of Shakespearean plays is not silent, but is revealed in its entirety. Smith represents Shakespeare as a provocative author who knows about discrimination no less than Ovid, and about the economy is no less than poetry, whose thoughts about freedom of will, responsibility, politics, glory, sex and private life are amazingly consonant with our time. The book transfers us to the world of intrigue and plagiarism: we see how Shakespeare adopts the experience of Christopher Marlo and Thomas Kid - Spielberg and Tarantino of the era that masterfully beats in his work slippery topics, religious conflicts, technological changes. Shakespeare does not offer ready -made answers - he asks sharp and sometimes uncomfortable questions that he will have to reflect on - and, possibly, over the centuries