\'This book is nothing short of brilliant.
After reading Hope\'s book you will never read Shakespeare in the same way.\'.
This is a book about words, conventions, artifice, mythology, innovation, reason, eloquence, silence, control, communication, selfhood, dialect, \'late style\' and much, much more.
One of Hope\'s skills is to show us that \'language\' is not separable from \'ideas\'; both are systems of representation.
It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. \'This book is nothing short of brilliant