'I've never read a book like this before: it's challenging, irreverent and funny.'
- Roddy Doyle
'Convincing, incisive and stimulating.'
- Independent on Sunday
'A brilliant and extremely readable distillation of some of the current thinking about Shakespeare's tragedies.'
- Irish Times
'A lively and intelligent work of criticism...Shakespeare is hard, and O'Toole has valiantly refused to simplify him.'
- Michael Caines, TLS
'A useful corrective to the philistine notion that Shakespeare must be simplified and domesticated so that people can understand him.'
- Steven Poole, Guardian
'You'll look at Shakespeare with new eyes after reading this book.'
- Sunday Herald