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Product details
- ISBN 9780631229858
- Weight: 372g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2003
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.
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- Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.
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- Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today.
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- Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge
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- Makes Shakespeare’s plays accessible to the widest possible audience.
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.
