Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781848310162 (1848310161)
Publish date: September 4th 2008
Publisher: Totem Books
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
After reading “The Shakespeare Wars” by Ron Rosenbaum (review here), I sunk into a lethargic stupor. What can I read that will topple Rosenbaum’s book? I’d “Shakespeare on Toast” on my TBR Pile for a while. It went there just when it came out, but I thought it’d be something of a pastiche on Shakesp...
I quit.
It's a real treat to read!Entertainingly and witty written, and full of useful information.Ben Crystal really knows how to get his point across. Within a few pages he's getting you completely hooked on what Shakespeare and his work, his plays, are about. After that putting the book away is a though ...