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Overview
Arguably the most revered and researched author of all time, William Shakespeare forever changed the face of literature. His best-known plays, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar, among many others, still delight after more than 400 years, and his sonnets are also perennially popular.About the Author:
Paul Gleed is currently a lecturer in English at Binghamton University
Synopsis
Arguably the most revered and researched author of all time, William Shakespeare forever changed the face of literature. His best-known plays, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar, among many others, still delight after more than 400 years, and his sonnets are also perennially popular.
About the Author:
Paul Gleed is currently a lecturer in English at Binghamton University
School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up- Following an introduction by Harold Bloom, this book includes a general overview on how to write critical essays and a chapter on how to read and write about Shakespeare in particular, with some brief background material on Elizabethan and Jacobean history and theater. The body of the book consists of chapters on writing about 11 commonly studied Shakespeare plays, including Romeo and Juliet , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Hamlet , and Macbeth . These chapters are full of sound, practical advice, with a nice variety of suggested topics for each play, focusing on such subjects as themes, individual characters, form and genre, and compare/contrast essays, and Gleed's analyses of the plays are excellent. However, the tone is quite scholarly and academic. Less-able students would be completely bewildered by some of the suggested topics (colonialism in The Tempest , for example), making this title most suitable for advanced high school and college students.-Kathleen E. Gruver, Burlington County Library, Westampton, NJ
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up- Following an introduction by Harold Bloom, this book includes a general overview on how to write critical essays and a chapter on how to read and write about Shakespeare in particular, with some brief background material on Elizabethan and Jacobean history and theater. The body of the book consists of chapters on writing about 11 commonly studied Shakespeare plays, including Romeo and Juliet , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Hamlet , and Macbeth . These chapters are full of sound, practical advice, with a nice variety of suggested topics for each play, focusing on such subjects as themes, individual characters, form and genre, and compare/contrast essays, and Gleed's analyses of the plays are excellent. However, the tone is quite scholarly and academic. Less-able students would be completely bewildered by some of the suggested topics (colonialism in The Tempest , for example), making this title most suitable for advanced high school and college students.-Kathleen E. Gruver, Burlington County Library, Westampton, NJ