Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826412508)

In the same winning formula as The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie (more than 300,000 copies sold) and The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes (1999), this all-new companion to Shakespeare will present The Bard in a new and exciting way in a new century. For students, scholars, theater lovers, and scholars - nearly everyone! - this book wraps some 400 years of Bardology into a lively and often unexpected package.In their witty and inimitable way, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister examine the whole dramatic canon, play by play, including dramas of disputed authorship. (The long poems and sonnets are also covered.) Included are inside stories on theater and film productions, "alternate" interpretations of the plays, Shakespeare's status around the world, the clubs and societies, the mysterious life - and even the question that has plagued critics almost from the day he put down his quill: whether Shakespeare even wrote the works attributed to him.

Author: Dick Riley, Pam McAllister
ISBN-10: 0826412505
ISBN-13: 9780826412508
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2001
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.13w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/11/2001 pg. 77
Library Journal 07/01/2001 pg. 90
Booklist 07/01/2001 pg. 1971
Foreword 10/01/2001 pg. 51
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 227