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Where There's a Will There's a Way

Laurie Maguire

If you've ever fallen in love with the wrong person been held back by your insecurities endured the pressures of family dealt with the loss of a loved one or fought to overcome obsessive behaviours in yourself or in others then you've participated in the folly of life. In other words you've undertaken a role in the high drama - and comedy - of a Shakespeare play. Covering such universal subjects as identity the battle of the sexes family relationships love loss and death Maguire shows how the dilemmas illustrated in the bard's classic tragedies comedies and histories can help readers explore their own emotions and judgements. Together Maguire and Shakespeare offer suggestions comfort empathy and encouragement as they set out a timeless principle for living. To read Shakespeare is to understand what it means to be human. To read "Where There's a Will There's a Way" is to better understand how to deal with it.>

  • Classification : Popular Psychology
  • Pub Date : APR 12, 2007
  • Imprint : Nicholas Brealey
  • Page Extent : 224
  • Binding : TPB
  • ISBN : 9781857883961
  • Price : INR 725
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Laurie Maguire

Laurie Maguireis a Fellow at Magdalen CollegeOxford where she teaches English Literature. She is the author or editor of three books on Shakespeare including Studying Shakespeareand has written numerous articles on Elizabethan dramawomens' studies and theatre.

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