Shakespeare On Theatre

Description

In his plays and poems, Shakespeare returns again and again to theatrical ideas and images. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi draws together all the set pieces such as 'All the world's a stage', Hamlet's encounters with the Players and Bottom's amateur dramatics along with less well-known but equally revealing passages. Interspersed throughout are insights into theatre practice from Shakespeare's contemporaries. The result is that we are almost able to smell the greasepaint issuing from the tiring house and hear the roar of the crowd foregathered in the Globe...

Author description

William Shakespeare (1564- 1616)was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of credited 37 plays (plus a hand at least in several others), 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His work has been translated into every major living language and the plays performed more often than those of any other dramatist.