Shakespeare’s Oracle

My favorite book about Shakespeare was written by an American who died thirty years ago. Today it languishes in academic disrepute—though, curiously, it remains in print in both cloth and paper editions. A remarkable fact, this, considering the constant waves of Shakespeare books, many of them subsidized by academic presses.

The book’s disrepute is perhaps understandable, for reasons we will ponder. Yet that’s not to say it’s right. Perpend.