Shakespeare: A Brief Insight

by Germaine Greer

Best-selling author Germaine Greer explores Shakespeare as a thinker, unraveling the methods he used to dramatize issues in a way that made his audience aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. She argues that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to the English-speaking world, it will retain the values that make it unique.

198 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

Germaine Greer is an Australian born writer, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century.

Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and criticism. She is also the author of Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984), The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991), and most recently Shakespeare's Wife (2007).