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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780789493330
ISBN: 0789493330
Label: DK ADULT
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: April 19, 2004
Publisher: DK ADULT
Sales Rank: 159487
Studio: DK ADULT
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Offering a user-friendly, beautifully illustrated guide to every play in the Shakespeare canon, as well as a portrait of the Bard's life and the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater, the Essential Shakespeare Handbook is an innovative and entertaining book which unravels the complexities of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will enrich the experience of the Bard's work on the page, stage, and screen.
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I initially saw this book in the hands of my 14-year old nephew, but decided that my college-age granddaughter would benefit from it, too. Both kids just love all the graphics, facts, interesting stories and concise reviews of the plays. Very helpful in their schoolwork, but I'm thinking I might like a copy for myself!
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This is a superb book for anyone interested in Shakespeare's plays at any level for any reason...not just summaries of the plays, but helpful facts such as # of lines per character, relative length of plays, ratio of poetry to prose and more.
As a professional Theater Critic, I find it indispensible - and have gifted it to many associates and students.
Well worth the $$ - and the info will never be dated.
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Given that thousands of volumes have been devoted to Shakespeare I believe it a bit presumptuous to believe one can define and present the 'essential' Shakespeare. Essential to whom? And 'essential' in what way?
Nonetheless this book has much information about Shakespeare, about the plays which it covers one by one, about the characters all of whom it lists, about the major 'genres' of Shakespeare's writing, about the way the plays have been played.
It does not however what I personally ... Read More
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These days it is hard to read Shakespeare without some sort of support reading, a companion to help make the reading clearer. This book does that as well as discuss Shakespeare's life and works in accurate, or as accurate as it can be, detail. I used this book to do a small research paper on Shakespeare. I had several other sources and this book had all of that information plus some. The matierial presented in "Essential Shakespeare Handbook" is often interesting facts that make reading it fun. This ... Read More
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Did you know that Shakespeare introduced about 1500 new words into the English language? According to this book, this was not only because Shakespeare was a genius. "When Shakespeare began writing plays and poems, the English language was absorbing new words more rapidly than ever before or since." This was due to a convergence of factors succintly described in this easy-to-read, beautifully-illustrated, and visually interesting book.
Do you just want to know what happens in The Tempest, ... Read More
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