As I understand it, the title of this new book by Ben Crystal, Shakespeare on Toast, which tries to make the Bard understandable to the hoi polloi, comes from that revered British culinary concoction, beans on toast. (I was about to make a snarky comment to the effect that only those barmy Brits could come up with a dish like that, until I remembered our own Yankee fave, toxic-waste-on-paste, I mean pasta,  a.k., Mac and Cheese, and it occurred to me that beans on toast would at least be healthier.)

Anyhow, here’s a little review of the book from the UK Independent.