Essential Shakespeare Handbook: The Definitive, Fully Illustrated Guide to the World's Greatest Playwright and His Works - Couverture souple

The ultimate visual guide to every Shakespeare playThe Essential Shakespeare Handbook unravels the history, themes and language of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.Romance, comedy and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. With act-by-act plot summaries and resumes of main characters, the Essential Shakespeare Handbook will allow you to enjoy the Bard with new confidence. See the plays and sonnets in context with a portrait of the Bard's life and the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Enrich your experience of the Bard's work on the page, stage, and screen with an in-depth look at Shakespearean language and Shakespeare's influence across the globe.Whether you want a quick overview of Hamlet before a trip to the theatre or help with a Shakespeare essay, the popular Essential Shakespeare Handbook now with a new jacket (previous ISBN 9780751348828) is the book for you.

"Essential Shakespeare Handbook deserves a place next to your edition of Shakespeare's plays. Leslie Dunton-Downer, a former lecturer at Harvard, and Alan Riding, the European cultural correspondent for The Times, have written a guide to the poems and plays that is scholarly without being recondite, succinct without being superficial." – The New York Times Book Review

"Students will like the glossy, well-illustrated format; it is an English teacher's dream. Recommended." – Library Media Connection

"This simple, colorful handbook is a perfect companion to the playwright's complete works." – Library Journal