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Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays

Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays

by Laurie Maguire (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $41.41
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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 260
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 21 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 063122985X
ISBN 13: 9780631229858

Media Reviews
This brilliant and inspirational book offers new insight into the work and world of William Shakespeare and offers fresh demonstration of his relevance for our own lives and troubles. At once immensely erudite and extraordinarily accessible, Maguire shows how broken--hearts, dysfunctional families, domestic violence, and other personal and social problems, was all grist for Shakespearea s theatrical imagination. Alongside unflinching criticism of a world--gone--wrong, Shakespeare also offered his audiences solace and hope. The top book on Shakespeare this year, Studying Shakespeare should be on everyonea s bookshelf and on The Times Best Seller list. Dypmna Callaghan Maguirea s book is fiesty, informative and stimulating. Atlantis
Author Bio
Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Oxford University. She is the author of Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996) and co--editor of Textual Formations and Reformations (1998), among other publications.