Deciphering Shakespeare's Plays: A Practical Guide to the Twenty Best-Known and Enduring Works

Deciphering Shakespeare's Plays: A Practical Guide to the 20 Best-Known and Enduring Works brings William Shakespeare's 400-year-old dramas alive in a new introduction for students, playgoers, and general readers. This guide doesn't just dissect great soliloquies on the page--it illuminates the essence and experience of the Shakespearean spoken word.

This practical guide brings you closer to the heady, behind-the-scenes world of freelance playwriting and the London theatre scene of the 1590s. It lends insight into decisions that theatre people make while acting and staging The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth, and many other revered works by the world's greatest playwright.

Deciphering Shakespeare's Plays is an invaluable reference tool for high school and university students, drama students, professional and amateur actors, teachers, playgoers, drama critics, and casual readers--or anyone who wants to discover, brush up on, or reacquaint themselves with Shakespeare's plays.

Author: Cynthia Anne Greenwood
Publisher: Calpurnia Press
Published: 06/28/2018
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780998897806

About the Author
Greenwood, Cynthia Anne: - Cynthia Greenwood has worked as a professional interpreter of Shakespeare for newspaper readers, students, and theatregoers for thirty years. She is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays, having taught Shakespeare's plays and sonnets at the college level for ten years. She served as the classical arts critic for the Houston Press, and has filed arts reports and reviews for The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Playbill and PlayShakespeare.com. She holds a Master's degree in English from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a second Master's degree with an emphasis on British drama, from The University of Houston.