A Guide to Richard III (The Shakespeare Handbooks) - Softcover

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The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world’s most celebrated dramatist.

Along with a clear, easy-to-follow description of the plot, each book contains plenty of quotations from the text – with simple explanations of any unfamiliar words and phrases – and some thought-provoking comments from critics, past and present.

The Shakespeare Handbooks include a few intriguing Shakespearean facts and figures, too. How old was Shakespeare when he wrote Richard III? In what way did the play mark a new departure in Shakespeare’s writing? Why was King Richard such a vilified figure in Elizabethan times? Which adjective is used more frequently in Richard III than in any other play by Shakespeare? Which actor, playing the part of Richard in the 18th century, is believed to have been the source of the theatrical encouragement to ‘break a leg’? What does to ‘cog’ mean? And to ‘pill’? What is a ‘cockatrice’? And where is Pomfret?

If you’re apprehensive about approaching a Shakespeare play, the Shakespeare Handbooks provide the perfect introduction. They’re ideal for students, theatregoers – in fact, anyone curious to know more about the greatest plays in the English language.

These are a few of the appreciative comments we’ve received about the Shakespeare Handbooks:
“Tremendously useful in helping to understand Shakespeare’s works” – Dame Judi Dench.
“Very readable, very helpful” – Sir Kenneth Branagh.
“The Shakespeare Handbooks open the plays up admirably. Excellent for all levels of reader – everybody will get something from them.” – Simon Callow CBE.

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