Amazon.com description: Product Description: 'Brilliantly original' - Andrew Gurr. 'A splendid read' - Michael Dobson. 'A tour de force' - John Dukakis. 'Intriguingly fresh perspectives' - Stanley Wells. The world's most influential Shakespeare scholars are talking about Steve Sohmer's 'Reading Shakespeare's Mind'. A worthy successor to his influential 'Shakespeare's Mystery Play' and 'Shakespeare for the Wiser Sort', this exciting new book reveals the personalities and events behind Shakespeare's greatest plays: Hamlet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and others. A must-read for lovers of Shakespeare and serious students of the Renaissance and the theater.