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In his customary jargon-free style, Mr. Fallon examines sixty prominent characters from Shakespeare's plays. He locates each of them in the story of their play, relates them to other characters, shows how they change (or don't), and sums up their character and nature. "This book is as handy as they come...distilled without being dunderheaded-reader-friendly in the extreme." American Theatre (on A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare).

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Fallon explores Shakespeare in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and quotations from the plays. He writes in easily accessible prose in a book designed to make modern readers and audiences feel comfortable with the Bard. "Fallon knows his Shakespeare to the letter." Choice.

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In surveys of plays that will help readers and viewers follow the action with case and understanding, Fallon opens a window to Shakespeare's time while illuminating the timelessness of his works.

Written for the general reader "in plain though not inelegant English", "A Theatergoer's Guide" examines the most frequently staged of Shakespeare's plays scene by scene, and those less frequently performed act by act.