This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.</li> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today.</li> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge</li> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Makes Shakespeare’s plays accessible to the widest possible audience.</li> </ul>