Words, Words, Words

Jan Grzanka holds a PhD in Philosophy from Catholic University of Lublin. He is a member of PTFT and PTF. Editor-in-chief of journals: Universitas Gedanensis and Festival Reminiscences. Vice-President of the Polish Shakespeare Society. Author and co-author of books on philosophy and Shakespearean studies.

• Preview - Chapter 1: Shakespeare’s Walden (As You Like It, 1599–1600) - Chapter 2: It’s only love (Romeo and Juliet, 1595) - Chapter 3: The course of true love never did run smooth (Antony and Cleopatra, 1606–1607) - Chapter 4: Utopia in The Tempest, or the tempest in Utopia? (The Tempest, 1611) - Chapter 5: Is Essex Shakespeare’s Brutus or Cassius? (Julius Caesar, 1600) - Chapter 6: Politics in the service of power, or power trapped in politics? (Measure for Measure, 1604) - Chapter 7: Macbeth in the mousetrap (Macbeth, 1606) - Chapter 8: Shakespeare’s fake news (Richard III, 1590–1593) - Chapter 9: Othello’s paradise lost (Othello, 1605) - Chapter 10: In the grip of a mythical evil (Titus Andronicus, 1593) - Chapter 11: Confounded by Hamlet (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1600) - Chapter 12: Coached by King Lear (King Lear, 1605) - Chapter 13: On trial (The Merchant of Venice, 1596) - Chapter 14: Trapped in a matrix or in Plato’s cave? Misogyny ltalian style (The Taming of the Shrew, 1594) - Chapter 15: Falstaff’s naïve delights (The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602) - Chapter 16: A dream of free sex (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1595) - Afterthoughts