Product Description: Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces ¯ including Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces ¯ including ""All the world's a stage,"" Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals ¯ along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals...read more

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Product Description: "A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall

Product Description: "A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall

Product Description: "A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall

Product Description: “A quite wonderful idea …So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself.”—Sir Peter HallThis brand new edition accurately reproduces the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so in modern type...read more

Product Description: "A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall

Product Description: The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)