Shakespeare for Students is an attractive and accessible 3-vol. set of essential criticism to the playwrights most-popularly-studied plays and poetry in secondary schools and undergraduate curricula. The second edition contains updated entries and 4 brand new entries.
Youll find a diverse blend of criticism along with plot summaries and character profiles that help further decode these dramatic masterpieces for students.
Each detailed, illustrated entry provides:
- An introduction that provides an overview of the play or poem
- A plot summary
- An annotated character list
- A discussion of the plays principal themes
- Understandable essays on the plays construction (setting, dialogue, imagery)
- Historical and cultural context sections that illuminate the plays role in inter-curricular studies
- Excerpted critical commentary on various facets of the play
- Extensive theme index
- A chronology of Shakespeares life, work, and times
...and much more
You may also be interested in For Students Online - the complete For Students Collection in eBook format
