Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the PlaysISBN: 978-0-631-22985-8
Paperback
256 pages
August 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they
can still be used as a guide to life.
- Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.
- Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today.
- Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge
- Makes Shakespeare’s plays accessible to the widest possible audience.