cover image Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare

Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare

Dick Riley, Pam McAllister. Continuum, $44.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-8264-1250-8

A guide to an even more popular author comes from Dick Riley and Pam McAllister (coauthors of The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes): The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare. Play by play (and covering the sonnets and long poems), the authors provide a plot summary, ""Likely Source of Plot,"" ""Notable Features"" (Samuel Johnson and others ""refused to believe"" that the brutal Titus Andronicus was Shakespeare's work), historic productions, etc. With an engaging blend of homage and irreverence, this book renders accessible the Bard's entire dramatic oeuvre. Illus. ( July)