Essential Shakespeare Handbook,9780789493330

Essential Shakespeare Handbook

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ISBN13: 9780789493330
ISBN10: 0789493330
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-04-19
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

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 Handbookis 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.

Author Biography

Leslie Dunton-Downer, a fellow and lecturer at her alma mater, Harvard, is a founding member of the Cambridge Riverside Players, and has produced community readings of Shakespeare's plays. Her published works have earned her a Sheldon Fellowship, two Rockefeller Foundation Awards, and the International Orpheus Award.

Alan Riding is the European Cultural Correspondent for The New York Times based in Paris. He has covered countless Shakespearean performances, films, ballets, and operas.

Table of Contents

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK 6(2)
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 8(8)
SHAKESPEARE IN HIS TIME 16(8)
ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN THEATRE 24(8)
SHAKESPEARE'S CANON 32(6)
SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE 38(8)
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE 46(2)
THE HISTORY PLAYS 48(106)
Henry VI Part I
54(8)
Henry VI Part II
62(8)
Henry VI
Part III
70(8)
Richard III
78(10)
King John
88(8)
Edward III
96(10)
Richard II
106(10)
Henry IV Part I
116(10)
Henry IV Part II
126(10)
Henry V
136(10)
Henry VIII
146(8)
THE COMEDIES 154(134)
The Comedy of Errors
160(10)
The Taming of the Shrew
170(10)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
180(8)
Love's Labour's Lost
188(10)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
198(10)
The Merchant of Venice
208(10)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
218(10)
Much Ado About Nothing
228(10)
As You Like It
238(10)
Twelfth Night
248(10)
Troilus and Cressida
258(10)
All's Well That Ends Well
268(10)
Measure for Measure
278(10)
THE TRAGEDIES 288(108)
Titus Andronicus
294(10)
Romeo and Juliet
304(10)
Julius Caesar
314(10)
Hamlet
324(12)
Othello
336(10)
King Lear
346(12)
Macbeth
358(10)
Antony and Cleopatra
368(10)
Coriolanus
378(10)
Timon of Athens
388(8)
THE ROMANCES 396(50)
Pericles
402(8)
Cymbeline
410(8)
The Winter's Tale
418(10)
The Tempest
428(10)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
438(8)
NON-DRAMATIC POETRY 446(20)
THE NARRATIVE POEMS
448(8)
Venus and Adonis
449(3)
The Rape of Lucrece
452(2)
The Phoenix and the Turtle
454(1)
A Lover's Complaint
455(1)
THE LYRIC POEMS
456(10)
The Sonnets
457(7)
Shall I Die?
464(1)
The Epitaphs
465(1)
GLOBAL SHAKESPEARE 466(8)
INDEX 474(5)
PICTURE CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 479

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