Shakespeare: who put those thoughts in his head?
Today everybody reads Shakespeare. But what books did he read? Jonathan Bate on the writers who shaped the world's greatest playwright " and the three books the Bard would pick for Desert Island DiscsIllustration: Matthew RichardsonWhat did Shakespeare believe? We can only guess. He left neither a diary nor a philosophical treatise. His only surviving letters and public statements are either conventionally " if supre…