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.