rather like a car coming towards you. I knew I had to do it sometime. And it seemed like a natural progression from the other people I'd done.

Shakespeare: The Biography,

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

It leads to the conclusion that he did not necessarily persevere in his study.

And I think that's the spirit of Shakespeare, which somehow touched it . . . I don't know what that process is or means, but it certainly takes place.

This book wrote itself, somehow,