30-Second Shakespeare: 50 Key Aspects of his Works, Life and Legacy, each explained in Half a Minute - Hardcover

"This is a lovely thing to have and a great gift to give to your theatrically-inclined friends. Or you might want to keep it to yourself and just amaze people with your new found insight... Ros Barber has edited a real little gem here. Love it." --UK Theatre News

"The purpose of this short, beautifully presented and fully illustrated guide is not to feed vain show-offs with sound-bites to give them something clever to say at dinner parties but, as Ros Barber puts it in her 30-second introduction, 'to make Shakespeare interesting and comprehensible by cutting out the waffle'." --The Spectator

The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one image, all digestible in just 30 seconds. 30-Second Shakespeare uses this unique approach to grapple with the world’s most famous playwright. From what we know of his life and the intrigue of the authorship question, to uncoding the meanings of key concepts, themes and motifs, and the Bard’s extraordinary enduring literary and linguistic legacy.