If asked, most people would surely agree that Shakespeare was a thinker. Even the generally received picture of Shakespeare, featuring that prominent forehead, emphasizes his braininess. Still, the precise quality of the playwright’s thought remains elusive. As the late critic and Oxford professor A. D. Nuttall disarmingly admits in his new study, “We have no idea what Shak (...)
January 18, 2008
Books
An Intellectual Magpie
Shakespeare the Thinker A. D. Nuttall Yale University Press, $30, 448 pp.
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