The Globe Guide to Shakespeare
Subtitle: The Plays, The Productions, The Life
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781681772646
Subjects: Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, stage history
Description: *The Globe Guide to Shakespeare* is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical essay for each, this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and in-depth background guide for theatre goers, students, film buffs and lovers of literature alike. *The Globe Guide to Shakespeare* also explores Shakespeare's sonnets and the narrative poems, combined with fascinating accounts of Shakespeare's life and theatre, exploring in colourful detail each play's original performances.

This comprehensive guide includes up-to-date reviews of the best films and audio recordings of each play, from Laurence Olivier to Baz Luhrmann, Kozintsev to Kurosawa. *The Globe Guide to Shakespeare* is a celebration of all things Shakespearian.

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
Table of contents: label: How this book works
title: viii; label: Introduction
title: vi; label: Shakespeare Q&As
title: xv; title: Part I: The plays; label: All's Well That Ends Well
title: 3; label: Antony and Cleopatra
title: 15; label: As You Like It
title: 29; label: The Comedy of Errors
title: 43; label: Coriolanus
title: 54; label: Cymbeline
title: 67; label: Edward III
title: 81; label: Hamlet
title: 93; label: Henry IV Part I
title: 114; label: Henry IV Part II
title: 127; label: Henry V
title: 139; label: Henry VI Part I
title: 151; label: Henry VI Part II
title: 163; label: Henry VI Part III
title: 174; label: Henry VIII
title: 185; label: Julius Caesar
title: 199; label: King John
title: 212; label: King Lear
title: 224; label: Love's Labour's Lost
title: 240; label: Macbeth
title: 252; label: Measure for Measure
title: 268; label: The Merchant of Venice
title: 280; label: The Merry Wives of Windsor
title: 294; label: A Midsummer Night's Dream
title: 305; label: Much Ado About Nothing
title: 319; label: Othello
title: 331; label: Pericles
title: 349; label: Richard II
title: 360; label: Richard III
title: 374; label: Romeo and Juliet
title: 387; label: The Taming of the Shrew
title: 399; label: The Tempest
title: 412; label: Timon of Athens
title: 428; label: Titus Andronicus
title: 440; label: Troilus and Cressida
title: 453; label: Twelfth Night
title: 466; label: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
title: 480; label: The Two Noble Kinsmen
title: 492; label: The Winter's Tale
title: 504; title: Part II: The poems; label: A Lover's Complaint
title: 519; label: The Rape of Lucrece
title: 526; label: The Sonnets
title: 535; label: Venus and Adonis
title: 546; title: Part III: Contexts; label: Shakespeare's life
title: 559; label: Shakespeare's stages
title: 581; label: Shakespeare's language
title: 600; label: Shakespeare's canon
title: 618; label: Colleagues and rivals
title: 622; label: Shakespeare for kids
title: 638; label: Books
title: 643; label: Websites and apps
title: 659; label: Glossary of useful terms
title: 671; label: Index
title: 681