The Facts On File Companion to Shakespeare (5-Volume set) (Facts on File Library of World Literature) - Tapa dura

William Baker is University Trustee Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. Kenneth Womack is Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State University's Altoona College.

The Facts On File Companion to Shakespeare is the largest and most comprehensive student's guide to Shakespeare ever written. Presented in five volumes, the primary goal of this new set is to make Shakespeare's poems and plays accessible and fun for high school and college students. Written and edited by active Shakespearean scholars and critics who have a love of teaching and explaining Shakespeare, this landmark collection presents his poems and plays in a whole new light for anyone interested in fully comprehending this prolific writer's works.

This set is an essential addition to any public, high school or college library. It is also useful to literary buffs and historians.

· Part I of the set contains background information on Shakespeare and society during his time.

· Part II covers Shakespeare's poems and Shakespeare's sonnets, which are examined both as an extended series and as individual works.

· Part III, which takes up four of the set's five volumes, examines all of Shakespeare's plays, including the plays he wrote in collaboration with other playwrights.