Excerpts from the book

GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE

City-State Press

232 pages (with index), fiction (storylines) / non-fiction (critical comments),
paperback, published May 2001,
available on order from Amazon online and any bookstore.

ISBN 0-9709265-3-7Price: $ 14.95

Storylines, highlights, and deeper meanings of Shakespeare’s 38 tragedies, comedies, histories.

Accents placed on famous Shakespearean characters: Hamlet, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Falstaff, Othello and Iago, Richard II and Richard III, Rosalind (As You Like It), my favorite comedy heroine, Viola (Twelfth Night), Petruchio and Katharina of the atrociously delightful Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s great Fools (jesters) – especially Touchstone and Lear’s Fool, etc., etc.

Note: like the Guide to Greek Drama, Guide to Shakespeare is both a reference book and a work intended for general reading to introduce all of the Bard’s plays in a reader-friendly manner.

Note: Guide to Shakespeare may be considered a companion to our Guide to Greek Drama, since the two books offer complete introductory guides to Literature’s two overwhelmingly superior dramatic traditions.

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