This volume takes readers into the wonderful world of the Bard. For scholars, theatre lovers, students - everyone - this book wraps nearly 400 years of "Bardology" into a concise package. The authors examine the whole dramatic canon, play by play, including works of questionable authorship. The long poems and sonnets are also covered. The book includes inside stories on theatre and film productions, "alternate" interpretations of the plays, Shakespeare's status around the world, the clubs and societies, the mysterious life, even the question that has plagued critics for 100 years: whether Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him.
ISBN: | 9780826412508 |
Publication date: | 1st June 2001 |
Author: | Dick Riley, Pam McAllister |
Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Series: | Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions |
Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 |