On Theatre: Shakespeare on Theatre (Paperback)

In his plays and poems, Shakespeare returns again and again to theatrical ideas and images. Nick de Somogyi draws together all the set pieces such as 'All the world's a stage', Hamlet's encounters with the Players and Bottom's amateur dramatics along with less well-known but equally revealing passages.

Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi draws together all the set pieces such as "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur dramatics, along with less well-known but equally revealing passages. Interspersed throughout are insights into theater practices from Shakespeare's contemporaries.