Richard Paul Roe

The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travels

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ISBN 13:: 9780062074263
author:: Richard Paul Roe
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Harper Perennial
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2011
Pages:: 336
Dimensions:: 23.9 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm
Genre:: Poetry, Drama & Criticism, History & Criticism,
Condition:: New
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The Shakespeare Guide to Italy is a unique and compelling journey that explores the Bard's travels in Italy. Using Shakespeare's own words as his guide, Richard Paul Roe spent over twenty years tracing the locations of nearly every scene in the Bard's Italian plays.

This chronicle of travel, analysis, and discovery paints a vivid picture of what Shakespeare must have experienced before writing his plays. With copious annotations, over 150 maps, photographs, and paintings, the book offers an unprecedented insight into the Bard's life and work.

Part literary detective story, part travelogue, The Shakespeare Guide to Italy is a deeply provocative journey that will forever change our understanding of how to read the Bard and alter our vision of who William Shakespeare really was.

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