The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard

What’s so friendly about William Shakespeare? Haven’t we all spent dutiful hours trying to make ourselves enjoy reading the Bard - with mixed results? The Friendly Shakespeare will change all that - it’s a book that will delight anyone who ever shuddered at a soliloquy or nodded off the moment an actor said “doth.” It’s crammed full of solid but never simplistic information; it’s intelligent without being overly intellectual, but with the depth to satisfy even those for whom reading Shakespea…