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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare |
| Author: |
Asimov, I. |
| ISBN: |
0517268256 |
| Publisher: |
Avenel |
| URL: |
http://www.amazon.com/Asimovs-Guide-Shakespeare-Understanding-Enjoying/dp/0517268256 |
| Year: |
1970; 1993 |
| Description: |
This guide supplies the modern reader with background information on topics which Shakespeare assumed were familiar to Elizabethan audiences. Shakepeare provided "horseplay and slapstick comedy for the less educated in his audiences, while providing a wealth of allusion for the more educated." He assumed the educated members of his audiences were thoroughly grounded in Greek & Roman mythology and history; that they were knowledgeable about England's history and the geography of 16th century Europe. |
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