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The Rough Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical essay for each, this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and in-depth background guide for theater goers, students, film buffs and lovers of literature alike. The Rough Guide to Shakespeare also explores Shakespeare's sonnets and the narrative poems, combined with fascinating accounts of Shakespeare's life and theatre, exploring in colourful detail each play's original performances. This fully updated guide includes a new 'My Shakespeare' chapter with top directors and actors including Sir Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer and Zoë Wanamaker, as well as tips for introducing your children to Shakespeare with recommended graphic novels, adaptations and DVDs for all age groups. With up-to-date reviews of the best films and audio recordings from Laurence Olivier to Baz Luhrmann, Kozintsev to Kurosawa, the Rough Guide to Shakespeare is a celebration of all things Shakespearian.
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Andrew Dickson is Arts editor for The Guardian & a Radio Four regular
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Details of the plays, the performances, the stories, the influences, the origins all set out in clear text : what more can anyone want.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent book. Not as simple as an idiots guide, but not too intellectual for the 'just getting to grips' type of people. The perfect balance.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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As a Shakespeare buff I eagerly bought this only to discover with horror that it apparently follows the New Oxford Shakespeare by gratuitously changing the spelling of place and character names. Only a cursory attempt at explanation is attempted. Hence the book uses 'Ardenne' for Arden in As You Like It because the play has French character names. It uses 'Innogen' for Imogen in Cymbeline because the First Folio was a 'misprint'. It uses 'Petruccio' for Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew, Helen for Helena in All's Well, Brabanzio for Brabantio in Othello. The longer this went on the more my enjoyment of what is a fairly comprehensive guide was ruined.
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