Fandex Family Field Guides Shakespeare - Synopses of All Shakespeare 's …

Studying Shakespeare or just a fan?? This is the resource you need to learn all the different works of Shakespeare. In EUC. Book Description: Combining 50 individually die-cut cards with full-color illustrations, plus hundreds of intriguing facts, stories, statistics, and trivia, Fandex is the newest breakthrough in information-packed, family publishing. The Bard is back in a big way, and Shakespeare helps us remember the things we may have forgotten and introduces us to new facets of Shakespeare that we may never have learned. With illustrations that mix photographs of actors who defined their roles--Kenneth Branagh as Henry V, Sir John Gielgud as Prospero--and historic paintings of characters, Shakespeare puts the author, his every play, his sonnets, and his world in the palm of the reader's hand. Fandex celebrates the plays, the plots, the poetry--and obsession, conspiracy, madness, sorcery, murder, yearning and bloodshed. A chronology from The First Part of Henry VI, with its detailed staging of warfare, to the sublime allegory of The Tempest, here is the hesitation of Hamlet. The absolute evil of Iago. Macbeth's ambition, Lear's blind pride, Falstaff's Mockery, Juliet's passion. Illustrated with a fascinating mix of historic paintings and photographs of actors in their definitive roles, SHAKESPEARE puts the Bard and his every play in the palm of your hand. *50 INDIVIDUALLY DIE-CUT CARDS *FULL COLOR THROUGHOUT *KNOWLEDGE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS *FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY