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The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life
Andrew Dickson
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Description for The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, 80 illustrations (b/w) with possible 16 page colour section. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical essay for each, this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and in-depth background guide for theatre goers, students, film buffs and lovers of literature alike. The Globe Guide to Shakespeare also explores Shakespeare's sonnets and the narrative poems, combined with fascinating accounts of Shakespeare's life and theatre, exploring in colourful detail each play's original performances. ... Read more
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical essay for each, this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and in-depth background guide for theatre goers, students, film buffs and lovers of literature alike. The Globe Guide to Shakespeare also explores Shakespeare's sonnets and the narrative poems, combined with fascinating accounts of Shakespeare's life and theatre, exploring in colourful detail each play's original performances. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781256343
SKU
V9781781256343
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Andrew Dickson
Andrew Dickson has been an arts editor at the Guardian and is now a freelance writer and critic, who has also written for New Statesman and Sight and Sound among other publications. He has contributed to The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2010) and is currently an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a regular on ... Read more
Reviews for The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life
An amazing achievement - the book I turn to before seeing any new production.
Michael Billington
The Guardian
Well-honed, stylish and thoroughly enjoyable
Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Handy, companionable and trustworthy ... awesomely assured ... this is a must-own volume that Bard veterans and apprentices alike will punish - and reward ... Read more
Michael Billington
The Guardian
Well-honed, stylish and thoroughly enjoyable
Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Handy, companionable and trustworthy ... awesomely assured ... this is a must-own volume that Bard veterans and apprentices alike will punish - and reward ... Read more