Will to Live: Learning from Shakespeare How to Be and NOT to Be

by Georgeann Murphy PhD

A scene-by-scene guide to ten plays by Shakespeare, comic and tragic, early and late, highlighting the life challenges we all face from youthful self-definition through mid-life crises to the accommodations of age. In five “acts,” Will to Live offers a useful guide to understanding ourselves through Shakespeare’s unparalleled representations of how to be, and NOT to be.

451 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2024

Reviews

[Thomas Laperriere · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insights Abound

I watch Shakespeare plays as video, and don't get the insights a carefully reader gets. This book filled a much needed gap in my understanding of Shakespere.