Presents scene-by-scene plot summaries for Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Explains the historical, legendary, and mythological background of 38 plays and 2 narrative poems.

Here art thou real Shakespeare. The resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays - largely due to recent film adaptations - has reminded the world that Shakesp

Designed to enhance the playgoer's enjoyment of a performance, but it also makes for enlightening reading after the show. Intended for the general reader,it is

Catalogs Shakespeare's life, his times, his use of language and choice of words, the best and most insulting lines from his plays and poems, the actors who have