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    Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare's English Plays

    June 16,
    Well, I said I was prepared to read a Shakespeare play a week turns out I wasn't. I read 4 of the 8, which is just shy of what I wanted to achieve. However, scrambling online and in libraries to find an edition every week that had good enough footnotes that were not too cumbersome was very hard. I looked for editions whose footnotes had done the Elizabethan vocabulary and historical context fairly well, and whose footnotes didn't sit in blindingly small print at the bottom of the page. I hated looking at the bottom of the page and losing my place whenever I needed to reference a footnote. I ended up going with the Cliffs edition, not the Cliff Notes, but the actual full-text play published by Cliffs had pretty good in-line footnotes that didn't disturb the reading process too much. Occasionally they would lack definitions for important vocabulary words, and their after-scene summaries were much too heavy, and I'm just

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    and then commits further murders to maintain his power. The play clearly demonstrates the corrupting effect of ambition, but also deals with the relationship between cruelty and masculinity, tyranny and kingship, treachery, violence, guilt, prophecy, and disruption of the natural order. The play is believed to have been written sometime between and The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April , when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. It was first published in the Folio of , possibly from a prompt book. The play was most likely written during the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in James was a patron of Shakespeares acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote under Jamess reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwrights close relationship with the sovereign. Macbeth is Shakespeares shortest and bloodiest tragedy, and tells th

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    Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare

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    Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare () bygd Isaac Asimov is a two-volume guide to the works of the celebrated English writer William Shakespeare. The numerous maps were drafted bygd the artist Rafael Palacios.

    Structure

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    The work gives a short guide to every Shakespeare play, as well as two epic poems. Asimov organizes the plays not in the usual way – as tragedies, comedies, and histories – but regionally, as follows:

    • Greek
    • Roman
    • Italian
    • English

    The gods two categories are treated broadly; "Italian" applies to neighbouring countries, and both Hamlet and Macbeth are listed with "The English Plays". Asimov gives a detailed justification for doing this.

    Within each category, the plays are arranged according to internal (historical) chronology, making allowance for the several not based on actual events. Asimov notes how much fryst vatten real history, and describes who the historical people were, where applicable. He trace