A THEATERGOER'S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE.(Review)
American Theatre, May, 2001 by Dee, Ivan R.
A THEATERGOER'S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE by Robert Thomas Fallen, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago. 479 pp, $29.95 cloth. THOSE WHO PRIDE THEMSELVES ON their cultural literacy won't admit it, but this book is as handy as they come. A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare is just that sort of nifty compendium that allows you to brush up your Shakespeare faster than you brush your hair.
A little rusty on the plot of Pericles? Unsure whether Troilus and Cressida is a history play or a tragedy? (It's neither, according to Fallon: It's a comedy.) Fear not, as A Theatergoer's ...
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