All about Shakespeare

To be or not to be, nightingale or lark, Midsummer Night’s Dreams or Winter’s Tales –Curtains up for the master of storytelling and such stuff as dreams are made on:
 This is the only easily accessible, illustrated introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times, his work, influence and importance.


Substantial, surprising and stunningly produced, the facts collected in this beautiful book with its numerous pictures and illustrations are engaging and entertaining. Charlotte Lyne sets out a Shakespearean trail illustrating the genius, the man and the everlasting enigma. His questions are as old as they are new and will never be out of fashion. 

They are the fundamental questions of human existence: Love, jealousy, revenge, treason, loyalty, fear and doubt. His characters have long left the stage to start their dance throughout the world, through our heads and hearts: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Lady Macbeth, King Lear, tender Ophelia and feisty Kate …



Highly illustrated with beautiful photos, drawings and paintings.