WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564-1616: A Companion Guide by GILL DAVIES

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Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies and histories encompass melodrama, fairy tales, adventure, horror, love stories, humour, burlesque, death, politics, war and romance and transcend time and culture. He added an amazing 1,700 new words and catchphrases to the English language and his prodigious output earned him serious attention and a not inconsiderable fortune. This highly illustrated book encapsulates the glory of his life, works, language and legacy together with a who's who in Shakespeare, the characters, proper names and sources of all the plays and poems. Most of the plays were based upon existing older stories with the exception of A Midsummer Nights' Dream, Love's Labour's Lost and The Tempest which are entirely the Bard's original stories. Shakespeare unashamedly borrowed many of his plots and was inspired by stories in the Bible as well as the works of Chaucer, Plutarch, Ovid and English historians like Raphael Holinshed among others. The book is organised by Discovering the Man and the Mysteries, Plays and Poetry, A Gallery of Memorable Characters, Places, Words and Phrases he Coined, Quotes and Extracts, Shakespeare in the Media, Intriguing Facts and Figures, His Times and Timeline, Effects All Around the World with festivals to this day, places to visit in the UK, USA and Canada such as the Stratford Festival or his statue in Chicago's Lincoln Park and Juliet's Balcony in Verona, Italy and as far away as Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The first 120 pages are on thick glossy paper and packed with many colour and archive illustrations, followed by the Who's Who in Shakespeare by Francis Griffin Stokes which was originally published in 1909 and includes his two epic poems, other poetry, 154 sonnets and 37 (or maybe more) plays, all with a fairly busy list of characters adding up to several thousand including royal figures to ruffians, clowns, watchmen and servants, from Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Puck and Portia, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to old shepherds, grave diggers and tinkers - from Aaron a moor beloved of Tamora to Zimimar. Includes family trees, incredible facts and figures and quotations. 260 page large glamorous hardback, colour.
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