Dieser Band versammelt Lustiges, Witziges, Bemerkenswertes und Kurioses von und über Shakespeare: Myths about Shakespeare's Life Shakespeare's True Nationality Shakespeare's Words Insulting with Shakespeare Cooking with Shakespeare Shakespeare in Advertising How to Draw Shakespeare

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Foreword How to Spell the Name of a Well-known English Writer Sobriquets Myths about Shakespeare's Life Some Things that are Actually True Shakespeare's Life (Richard Armour) Shakespeare's Pubs (Sam Schoenbaum) Shakespeare's True Nationality Shakespeare's Words The Most Common Words Used by Shakespeare Shakespeare as First User False Friends Where Shakespeare Got It Wrong Insulting with Shakespeare The Shakespearian Insult Generator The Authorship Question Searching for Cyphers (David Crystal and Ben Crystal) Authorship of the Plays (Richard Armour) A Legendary Blues Guitarist (Ben Crystal) The Works William Shakespeare's Star Wars (Ian Doescher) The Skinhead Hamlet (Richard Curtis) The Famed 'To Be or Not To Be' Scene from Hamlet (A modern verse rendition by Desmond Olivier Dingle) A Soliloquy Simplified: To Be, or the Contrary? (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) The Tragedy of Othello (A modern verse rendition by Desmond Olivier Dingle) Shakespeare According to Gyles Brandreth The Curse of Mac The Macbeth Murder Mystery (James Thurber) The Merchant of Venice, told by Lancelot Gobbo, Shylock's Servant (Humphrey Carpenter) The Sonnets Hamlet on Film Shakespeare the Rude Bits Performing Shakespeare The Verse Problem And How to Master It (Patrick Barlow) Shakespeare Masterclass (Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) A Tale of Revenge from Macbeth (Derek Nimmo) Shakespeare in the Classroom Shakespeare's Age (Patrick Barlow) Cooking with Shakespeare Potage Macbethienne Shakespeare in Advertising shAkspEr How to Draw Shakespeare Editorische Notiz Literaturhinweise Text- und Abbildungsnachweise