BOOKS: SHAKESPEARE’S SHATTERED YOUTH: Laming or Elixir? by Lucy Sullivan

Portrait of the Bard as a young man SHAKESPEARE’S SHATTERED YOUTH: Laming or Elixir?by Lucy Sullivan(Windsor, NSW: Windrush Press)Paperback: 308 pagesISBN: 9780980619805Rec. price: AUD$25.00 Why another book on Shakespeare, you may ask? Have not his works been analysed countless times before? Well, yes, but there is always room for a fresh approach and new interpretation and that’s what Dr Lucy Sullivan’s book gives us. The accepted view of Shakespeare’s childhood has been a picture of happy, domestic stability; later of a young man, perhaps a bit boisterous, but nonetheless a happily married, family man. This idealism is far from Dr…