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Icon Books Ltd - Introducing shakespeare: a graphic guide | nick groom

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• Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled
• His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts
• His works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year
• He has given us many of the very words we speak
• And even some of the thoughts we think
• Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential
• And why he is still widely considered the greatest writer ever
• They investigate how the Bard has been worshipped at different times and in different places
• Used and abused to cultural and political ends
• And the roots of intense controversies which have surrounded his work