A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE by Laurie Maguire ( 9780631229858 )

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Title:

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE
A GUIDE TO THE PLAYS

By:

Laurie Maguire

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

063122985X

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9780631229858

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

1 August, 2003

Pages:

256

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Synopsis:

This engaging book draws on all of Shakespearea s plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. * Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespearea 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 Shakespearea s plays illustrate some of lifea 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.

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Blackwell Publishers

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