TY - BOOK AU - Belsey,Catherine TI - Why Shakespeare? SN - 9781403993199 AV - PR 2900 .B38 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Shakespeare, William, N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Shakespeare's singularity -- As you like it and "The golden goose" -- King Lear and the missing salt -- The exiled princess in The winter's tale -- Fairy tales for grown-ups in A midsummer night's dream -- Hamlet and the reluctant hero -- Twelfth Night and the riddle of gender -- Cultural difference as conundrum in The merchant of Venice -- Postscript : happy ever after? ER -