Designed to enhance the playgoer's enjoyment of a performance, but it also makes for enlightening reading after the show. Intended for the general reader,it is

Presents scene-by-scene plot summaries for Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and histories.

In this book Robert fallon examines the themes in Shakespeare's plays, the revelations about human nature that give them substance and weight and such an enduri

Explains the historical, legendary, and mythological background of 38 plays and 2 narrative poems.