Essential Shakespeare handbook /
Dunton-Downer, Leslie, 1943-
Essential Shakespeare handbook / DK essential Shakespeare handbook Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding. - 1st American ed. - New York, N.Y. : DK Pub., 2004. - 480 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
How to use this book
Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare in his time
Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre
Shakespeare's canon
Shakespeare's language
Works of Shakespeare
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
Comedies: Comedy of errors
Taming of the shrew
Two gentlemen of Verona
Love's labour's lost
Midsummer night's dream
Merchant of Venice
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
Tragedies: Titus andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Romances: Pericles
Cymbeline
Winter's tale
Tempest
Two noble kinsmen
Non-dramatic poetry: Narrative poems: Venus and Adonis
Rape of Lucrece
Phoenix and the turtle
Lover's complaint
Lyric poems: Sonnets
Shall I die?
Epitaphs
Global Shakespeare
Index
Picture credits & acknowledgements
For each of Shakespeare's plays, provides an introduction, list of characters, plot summary, notes on reading the play, and notes on seeing the play. Also includes an introduction to Shakespeare and his time; a genre overview for each of the four types of play--history, comedy, tragedy, and romance; and overviews of selected non-dramatic poems
0789493330 9780789493330
2004274586
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Crítica e interpretación.
Literatura inglesa --Historia y crítica
PR 2976 / D927es 2004
822.3/3
Essential Shakespeare handbook / DK essential Shakespeare handbook Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding. - 1st American ed. - New York, N.Y. : DK Pub., 2004. - 480 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
How to use this book
Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare in his time
Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre
Shakespeare's canon
Shakespeare's language
Works of Shakespeare
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
Comedies: Comedy of errors
Taming of the shrew
Two gentlemen of Verona
Love's labour's lost
Midsummer night's dream
Merchant of Venice
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
Tragedies: Titus andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Romances: Pericles
Cymbeline
Winter's tale
Tempest
Two noble kinsmen
Non-dramatic poetry: Narrative poems: Venus and Adonis
Rape of Lucrece
Phoenix and the turtle
Lover's complaint
Lyric poems: Sonnets
Shall I die?
Epitaphs
Global Shakespeare
Index
Picture credits & acknowledgements
For each of Shakespeare's plays, provides an introduction, list of characters, plot summary, notes on reading the play, and notes on seeing the play. Also includes an introduction to Shakespeare and his time; a genre overview for each of the four types of play--history, comedy, tragedy, and romance; and overviews of selected non-dramatic poems
0789493330 9780789493330
2004274586
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Crítica e interpretación.
Literatura inglesa --Historia y crítica
PR 2976 / D927es 2004
822.3/3