William Shakespeare Pocket Essentials.pdf

Ian Nichols

The Pocket Essential

W ILLIAM S HAKESPEARE

www.pocketessentials.com

First published in Great Britain 2002 by Pocket Essentials, 18 Coleswood Road,

Harpenden, Herts, AL5 1EQ

Distributed in the USA by Trafalgar Square Publishing, PO Box 257, Howe Hill

Road, North Pomfret, Vermont 05053

Series Editor: Paul Duncan

The right of Ian Nichols to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted

by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic,

mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of

the publisher.

Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be lia-

ble to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The book is sold subject to

the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out

or otherwise circulated, without the publisher’s prior consent, in any form or binding

or cover other than in which it is published, and without similar conditions, including

this condition being imposed on the subsequent publication.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 1-904048-05-6

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Book typeset by Wordsmith Solutions Ltd

Printed and bound by Cox & Wyman

Dedicated to every actor who has ever stumbled over the lines,

every student who has wondered what the hell it all meant,

and every director who has ever gone home and hit the gin

bottle, but mostly to my wife, Susan, who had to put up with all

the swearing.