The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare,9780028629056

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare

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ISBN13: 9780028629056
ISBN10: 0028629051
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Shakespeare's Life and Times 1(82)
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
3(10)
The Renaissance 101
13(12)
All the World's a Stage: Shakespeare's Theater
25(12)
The Play's the Thing
37(12)
Brush Up on Your Shakespeare
49(14)
Something Fishy About the Man from Stratford: The Authorship Question
63(10)
Shakespeare's Literary Reputation
73(10)
Part 2: The Comedies (or ``Love Makes the World Go `Round'') 83(62)
The Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona
85(12)
The Taming of the Shrew and Love's Labor's Lost
97(12)
A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice
109(14)
As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing
123(12)
Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor
135(10)
Part 3: Problem Plays 145(26)
All's Well That Ends Well
147(8)
Troilus and Cressida
155(8)
Measure for Measure
163(8)
Part 4: Tragedies 171(96)
Titus Andronicus
173(8)
Hamlet
181(12)
Romeo and Juliet
193(10)
Julius Caesar
203(10)
Othello, the Moor of Venice
213(12)
King Lear
225(10)
Macbeth
235(12)
Antony and Cleopatra
247(10)
Coriolanus and Timon of Athens
257(10)
Part 5: Romances 267(24)
The Tempest and The Winter's Tale
269(12)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Cymbeline
281(10)
Part 6: Histories 291(50)
King Henry VI, Part I: King Henry VI, Part II; King Henry VI, Part III
293(12)
King Richard III, King Richard II
305(10)
King John; King Henry IV, Part I
315(12)
King Henry IV, Part II; King Henry V; King Henry VIII
327(14)
Part 7: Poems and Sonnets 341(30)
The Battle of the Sexes Told in Rhyme
343(10)
The Sonnets
353(18)
Appendices
A Elizabethan English
365(4)
B Further Reading
369(2)
Index 371

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