Laurie Maguire

Laurie is Professor of English literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. She has held major fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2014 co-won the Calvin Hoffman prize for best work on Christopher Marlowe.

Her Where There’s a Will There’s a Way; Or All I really Need to Know in Life I Learned from Shakespeare, a funny, charming, lively, learned, wise book, proves her entirely plausible belief that when it comes to understanding life, all you need is Shakespeare. It was published by Penguin USA and Nicholas Brealey Books in the UK in 2007.

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