Another important event was the popularity of Montaigne's Essays. Suddenly it became fashionable to consider oneself the subject of writing. Shapiro believes that this encouraged Shakespeare to develop the soliloquies that characterise Hamlet.
This was an excellent book which translates Shakespeare from a myth into a real flesh and blood writer.
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June 2011; 373 pages
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