I'm really lazy so when forced to take a class on Shakespeare (which I still have problems spelling) I decided to take the easy way out and buy this book instead of reading his actual plays. I was just going to watch the movies they were all based on but I figured it would be a little bit less lazy if I actually incorporated some reading in with my studies. While I am not recommending this strategy for everyone it worked really well for me.
This gives you the finer points of all of his major plays, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, etc. So you don't have to read them at all! It sums up the plots, tells you the deeper meaning and symbolism and gives you information on other stuff you might have missed if your attention span is like mine, four seconds long, and you have a hard time focusing on the writing style that Shakespeare used. Plus its actually kind of funny in some parts.
While I am not an advocate of using this book for cheating in any way it actually allowed me to get an A- in the class without opening my text book and my teacher never said no study guides, so there. Works great for college courses or if you just don't get what all of those thous and thees mean. It helps you keep track of all of the characters in his many plots and dumbs it down really nicely.
This gives you the finer points of all of his major plays, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, etc. So you don't have to read them at all! It sums up the plots, tells you the deeper meaning and symbolism and gives you information on other stuff you might have missed if your attention span is like mine, four seconds long, and you have a hard time focusing on the writing style that Shakespeare used. Plus its actually kind of funny in some parts.
While I am not an advocate of using this book for cheating in any way it actually allowed me to get an A- in the class without opening my text book and my teacher never said no study guides, so there. Works great for college courses or if you just don't get what all of those thous and thees mean. It helps you keep track of all of the characters in his many plots and dumbs it down really nicely.
