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What Would Shakespeare Do?
What Would Shakespeare Do?
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Author: Jess Winfield Publisher: Ulysses Press Format: Hardcover # of Pages: 144 Pub. Date: 2000 Edition: 1569752257 ISBN-10: 9781569752258
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About the Book:
The works of Shakespeare are
rocket-boosters
to the brain and better therapy than self-help books. Using the same
blend of history, drama, and earthy human that is found in
Shakespeare's work, the book What Would Shakespeare Do?
explores sex and love, morals and the meaning of life, and other
ideas that resonate today.
In three dozen plays and 150 sonnets, William Shakespeare probed
the human spirit with unparalleled insight. What Would Shakespeare
Do? uncovers for the modern reader all the
personal advice contained in the Bard's immortal words. Using the
same blend of history, drama, and earthy humour that characterizes
Shakespeare's work, Jess Winfield, co-author of the stage comedy The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), explores ideas that still resonate
today: sex and love, youth and aging, morals and the meaning of life.
This breezy popularization makes Shakespeare as digestible as any personal advice column. Each page features a question about a
modern-day dilemma followed by a quote from Shakespeare and an
illuminating commentary by the author. Whether read as a diversion
for the Shakespeare buff, an imaginative self-help book, or a unique
introduction to the Bard, What Would Shakespeare Do? proves
true the words of Ben Jonson that Shakespeare "was not of an age
but for all time."
What people say:
"To
say that Jess Winfield knows his Shakespeare is laughable
understatement. Upside down — boy, he knows him, inside out, and
round and round." — The New York Times
About the Author:
Jess Winfield is
an American novelist and television writer. As
a literature student at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley, he forsook
scholarly detachment and took to the stage, eventually co-founding
the Reduced Shakespeare Company and co-creating the hit show The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(abridged), a two-hour
distillation of all 37 plays that premiered
at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1987. The
show became an international
sensation, leading to multiple world tours and played
14 years in London's West End.
After leaving the RSC, he spent ten years writing and producing
award-winning cartoons for the Walt Disney Company. He lives in Los
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