The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays

Cynthia Greenwood

Here Art Thou, True Shakespeare! This accessible new guide to Shakespeare’s major plays focuses on the essence of the spoken word and the benefits of watching the plays in performance – on the stage or screen – whenever possible. You’ll find tips about plot, theme, famous passages and soliloquies, and how to hear the music within the Bard’s verse and wordplay. Remember – Shakespearean theatre is a social art form, and in its earliest days, it was highly commercial.

This book brings you closer to the heady world of freelance playwriting and the London playhouses of the 1590s.