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Beginner's Guide to Shakespeare
Laurie Maguire
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Description for Beginner's Guide to Shakespeare
Paperback. This engaging book draws on all of Shakespearea s plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. * Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespearea s plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.
This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.
- Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.
- Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today.
- Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge
- Makes Shakespeare’s plays accessible to the widest possible ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631229858
SKU
V9780631229858
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Laurie Maguire
Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Oxford University. She is the author of Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996) and co-editor of Textual Formations and Reformations (1998), among other publications.
Reviews for Beginner's Guide to Shakespeare
"This brilliant and inspirational book offers new insight into the work and world of William Shakespeare and offers fresh demonstration of his relevance for our own lives and troubles. At once immensely erudite and extraordinarily accessible, Maguire shows how broken-hearts, dysfunctional families, domestic violence, and other personal and social problems, was all grist for Shakespeare's theatrical imagination. Alongside unflinching criticism ... Read more