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Brain 2005 128(4):952-953; doi:10.1093/brain/awh469
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Book review

THE BARD ON THE BRAIN

By P. M. Matthews and J. McQuain.

2003. New York: Dana Press.

Price $35.00. ISBN 0-9723830-2-6

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Reviewing the structure of a book is usually unnecessary, for the title generally gives sufficient insight into the subject matter to make superfluous any description of how it has been put together. This book is an exception. It is unusual and its title, The Bard on the Brain, does not reveal what is within, for it has been conceived and constructed in a most idiosyncratic way.

There are two authors. Paul Matthews is a professor of neurology and he has a special interest in brain imaging. His co-author, Jeffrey McQuain, is American and non-medical—rather, he is a scholar of Shakespeare and Chaucer. He has written books on the usage of language and has published widely on the sources of words and phrases that first appeared in Shakespeare or in early translations of the Bible. For several years he was a researcher . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David L. Stevens

Cheltenham, UK


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