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The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide by Emma Smith (view source)
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|author=Emma Smith
|reviewer=Robin Leggett
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|isbn=9780521149723
|pages=258
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|date=March 2012
|summary=Clearly laid out, well written and beautifully succinct guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems - ideal for school students or theatre-goers daunted by the challenge of the Bard.
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Does the world need another guide to Shakespeare's plays? There are plenty about and students these days have the added resource of the Internet to get the basics. However, if it does, then this is as good as any you will find. It's nicely written and beautifully clear and above all, succinct. In fact I'm doing a disservice to Emma Smith already by terming it a guide to his plays, because she also includes the poems and sonnets.
Our thanks to the kind people at Cambridge University Press for sending us a copy of this excellent guide.
Also worth checking out are [[The Shakespeare Handbook by Michael Schmidt and Robert Maslen]] and , [[Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal]] and [[Worlds Elsewhere by Andrew Dickson]].
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