by Kenneth McLeish, Stephen F. Unwin · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571191833
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«A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays» is the pocket guide to Shakespeare's plays written by Kenneth McLeish and Stephen F. Unwin, in paperback.
It brings together all 38 of Shakespeare's plays: for each one it includes a synopsis, characters and a critical essay, with notes on sources and historical context. It adds an introduction to Shakespeare and his era, useful for preparing a performance or for study.
English-language edition of 288 pages published by Faber & Faber in 1998.
For students, actors, directors and spectators who want to prepare before seeing a Shakespeare play.
John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish (1940–1997) was a British writer, playwright and translator. McLeish, "the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain", translated all the surviving classical Greek plays, most plays by Henrik Ibsen and Georges Feydeau, and individual plays by Plautus, Molière, Alfred Jarry, August Strindberg, Ödön von Horváth and Eugène Marin Labiche.
