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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780028629056
ISBN: 0028629051
Label: Alpha
Manufacturer: Alpha
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: April 12, 1999
Publisher: Alpha
Sales Rank: 487378
Studio: Alpha
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Product Description:
The famous playwrite won't be a mystery with this guide that explains the meanings behind his sonnets and plays and the history of his life in easy terms. Supplemented with a character list.
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I'm really lazy so when forced to take a class on Shakespeare (which I still have problems spelling) I decided to take the easy way out and buy this book instead of reading his actual plays. I was just going to watch the movies they were all based on but I figured it would be a little bit less lazy if I actually incorporated some reading in with my studies. While I am not recommending this strategy for everyone it worked really well for me.
This gives you the finer points of all ... Read More
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Okay, being a profound NON-lover of Shakespeare I never attended to lessons about him in school, and pointedly avoided him out of school. Then I decided to get a Master's in English Lit... I passed the GRE, and all the Shakespeare I had to go on I got from this book. Higest recommendation I can give it.
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...I found this book practically useless. Its summaries of the plays leave out major portions, the analyses are over-simplified, (even for high schoolers) and the "extras" are usually useless info about 20 year old film versions no one is interested in. It is funny, and at times provided an interesting tidbit or two, but for something meatier, REALLY read the sparknotes version free online or at Barnes and Noble.
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The book is not only informative, but so humorous, easy and fun to read. First part of the books which sets the stage for the plays and explores history, background and some on-going controversies about the authorship of the plays reads like an engaging spy novel.
There is a section dealing with the differences between the Old English, Middle English and Modern English, even an amusing guide for creating your own insults using Shakespeare's English - as in "oh, you bawdy, dizzy-eyed ... Read More
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Even people who aren't idiots may appreciate this book. It's funny, cute, informative, and gives lots of easy-to-understand tips and translations. This is way better than Cliffs' Notes, especially since it gives you plenty of reasons to read the actual plays.
The first few chapters are devoted to Shakespeare's life, the who-was-Shakespeare-really? debate, his theaters, and some stuff about Elizabethan slang terms. Then it goes to the plays themselves. It gives background info on the time ... Read More
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