The ring of truth meets the well-turned phrase in this compendium of 365 brief selections from the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare. Included are familiar as well as lesser -known gems, arranged in such sections as "Virtues and vices," "Words and Deeds," "Commerce and Coin," "Passion and Lust," and others.
A guide to 81 of the Western world's greatest ideas, aided by slightly irreverent cartoons. Includes the following concepts: Pascal's wager, Hume's fork, The paradox of value, Virtual reality, and many more
Macrone argues that it's the Bard's fundamental badness that counts heavily for his timeless appeal. He reveals Shakespeare as a popular writer who packed the Globe with rowdy masses by offering up delicious doses of sex, violence and horror.