Book: Paperback: flexiback | 5.78 x 8.26in | 480 pages | ISBN 9780789493330 | 19 Apr 2004 | Dorling Kindersley | 18 - AND UP
Offering a user-friendly, beautifully illustrated guide to every play in the Shakespeare canon, as well as a portrait of the Bard's life and the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater, the Essential Shakespeare Handbook is an innovative and entertaining book which unravels the complexities of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will enrich the experience of the Bard's work on the page, stage, and screen.
"The Essential Shakespeare Handbook deserves a place next to your edition of Shakespeare's plays. Leslie Dunton-Downer, a former lecturer at Harvard, and Alan Riding, the European cultural correspondent for The Times, have written a guide to the poems and plays that is scholarly without being recondite, succinct without being superficial."
-- The New York Times Book Review
“Dunton-Downer, a Shakespeare scholar and former Harvard lecturer, and co-author Alan Riding, European cultural correspondent for the New York Times, have taken a heightened visual approach that owes as much to Internet culture as to iconographic travel guides and the increasing popularity of graphic novels.” -- The Los Angeles Times
"A brilliant new way of looking at Shakespeare, and recaptured for me the excitement I felt as a teenager when I first discovered him. This travel guide seems to me to be an ideal introduction to Shakespeare, and a wonderful corrective to the dryness of much recent commentary. I'm very happy to have this book on my shelves."
-- Nick Hytner, the new director of the National Theatre.
"This is an excellent guide to a country called Shakespeare that can't fail to add to the knowledge and enjoyment to be derived from visiting it." -- Sir Richard Eyre, Director of the National Theatre, London from 1988 to 1997
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