ASIN: B00C28WSWG
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 330
In this, his final volume of Easy Reading Shakespeare, Richard Cuddington turns his attention to the less well-known plays of Shakespeare, and completes his approachable and straightforward treatment of the canon.
These are some of Shakespeare’s most intriguing works: by turns puzzling, lyrical, obscure, fantastical and sometimes horrifying. In the author’s clear and illuminating narrative verse, readers will meet kings – good, bad and foolish; knights – noble, lovesick or vain; Roman generals – tragic victims of cruelty, like Titus Andronicus, or arrogant authors of their own downfall, like Coriolanus. They will sail the seas with Pericles, buffeted by Fortune; laugh at the ridiculous antics of fat and lecherous Jack
Falstaff as he pursues the affections of two merry wives of Windsor; and thrill to the pageantry and intrigue of the Wars of the Roses. There is farce with the absurd ...
