Shakespeare, Leslie DuntonDowner
Shakespeare, Leslie DuntonDowner
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Shakespeare
His Life and Works

Author: Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding

Narrator: Charles Armstrong

Unabridged: 19 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: DK

Published: 10/25/2022

Synopsis

Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautiful guide to his life and works. Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were written and first performed, his works remain fresh and relevant today. Shakespeare: his life and works is an accessible and lavish celebration of the Bard himself and his 39 plays, great sonnets, and narrative poems. Themes, plots, characters, and language are brought to life with act-by-act plot summaries, resumes of main characters, and in-depth analysis of Shakespeare's use of, and influence on, the English language. Entries also explore Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets in the context of his life and the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, and reveal his sources and inspirations, further enriching your experience of his work, be it on the page, stage, or screen. Shakespeare: his life and works is perfect for existing Shakespeare fans, and anyone looking to find out more about the work of the world's most celebrated playwright.

About The Author

Leslie Dunton-Downer received a PhD with Distinction in comparative literature from Harvard. She has served as a lecturer at her alma mater, and is a trustee of the Harvard Advocate and a member of the Society of Fellows. She was a 2014 fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She is the coauthor, with Alan Riding, of DK’s Essential Shakespeare Handbook and Eyewitness Companions: Opera, and the author of The English Is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World.For 12 years, Alan Riding was the European cultural correspondent for the New York Times. He was previously bureau chief for the Times in Paris, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico City. Riding is the author of And the Show Went On and Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans. He lives in Paris with his wife, Marlise Simons, a writer for the Times.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cyndi on January 01, 2017

This was such a good book! It follows Shakespeare's life through his plays and what prompted them. How the times affected his plays was really cool.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 03, 2021

A summary of Shakespeare, with quotes from various plays and poems. Although it gave a brief description and history of each work, more detail and explanation was needed. Overall an average read......more

Goodreads review by Breann on May 04, 2024

Don’t go into this thinking it’s going to be super in-depth. The book gives a brief overview of Shakespeare’s life and the way his plays ebbed and flowed with whatever he was experiencing at the time along with the certain sensibilities of the day. I randomly came across this on Hoopla and I’m certa......more

Goodreads review by Mary on November 24, 2024

Short book, more of a synopsis of his plays but some great quotes and voices on the audiobook.......more

Goodreads review by Karl on February 18, 2022

Incredibly fun.......more

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