An introduction to all of Shakespeare's tragedies, comedies, and histories: brief narrations of the story, highlights, deeper meanings
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Editorial Reviews
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Author’s comment:
The descriptions of the plays, which integrate critical comments, should read like a short story. It ought to read like an interesting, highly unusual short story starring absolutely fabulous characters created by a Renaissance poetic dramatist – William Shakespeare.
From the Inside Flap
Excerpts from the Book: “Perhaps the finest tragic hero in all Literature, Hamlet dominates this Viking tragedy of murder and revenge.”
(Hamlet) “I believe this tragedy to be the most chilling horror story ever told.”
(Othello) “Shakespeare captures the spirit of Ancient Rome and the Roman in his tragedy of the republic on the precipice of imperial dictatorship.”
(Julius Caesar) “It stars Rosalind, Shakespeare’s queen of comedy heroines, and the enchanted forest of Arden where live the banished Duke and his merry men (save the melancholy Jaques).”
(As You Like It) “This is a fairy-tale comedy of love and madness, mischievous but benevolent fairies, and droll simpletons.”
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream) “The Queen told Shakespeare she would like to see Falstaff in love. Falstaff in love and farce is what she got.”
(The Merry Wives of Windsor) “Richard III not only achieves status as Shakespeare’s first great comic character, but deserves mention as Literature and the World’s most amusing serial murderer.”
(Richard III)
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