An entertaining and user-friendly illustrated guide to every play in the Shakespeare canon, this engaging reference book has been designed to enrich the experience of the Bard's work on the page, stage, and screen.
Record details
ISBN:9781465402264 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print 480 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
Publisher:New York : DK Publishing, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
How to use this handbook -- The life of William Shakespeare -- Shakespeare in his time -- Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre -- Shakespeare's canon -- Shakespeare's language -- The works of Shakespeare -- The history plays: Henry VI, part I -- Henry VI, part II -- Henry VI, part III -- Richard III -- King John -- Edward III -- Richard II -- Henry IV, part I -- Henry IV, part II -- Henry V -- Henry VIII -- The comedies: The comedy of errors -- The taming of the shrew -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labour's lost -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Much ado about nothing -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- Troilus and Cressida -- All's well that ends well -- Measure for measure -- The tragedies: Titus Andronicus -- Romeo and Juliet -- Julius Caesar -- Hamlet -- Othello -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Coriolanus -- Timon of Athens -- The romances: Pericles -- Cymbeline -- The winter's tale -- The tempest -- The two noble kinsmen -- Non-dramatic poetry: The narrative poems: Venus and Adonis -- The rape of Lucrece -- The phoenix and the turtle -- A lover's complaint -- The lyric poems: The sonnets -- Shall I die? -- Epitaphs -- Global Shakespeare -- Index -- Picture credits & acknowledgements.
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