• Germaine Greer is a prominent academic and best-selling author
• Clear introduction to Shakespeare's plays detailing moral and intellectual issues
• Only short introduction that looks at Shakespeare as a thinker as well as a writer
• Discusses on Shakespeare's influence on development of culture as well as literature

Germaine Greer examines Shakespeare's plays in detail, showing how he dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. She argures that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values which make it unique in the world.