Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year

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Perfect for reading or sharing, this anthology brings you Shakespeare's best-known and best-loved classics alongside less well-worn extracts. With Allie Esiri's entertaining and insightful thoughts on each entry, this book will fill your year with wonder, laughter, wisdom and wit.🎭 A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike. A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare’s works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike. Unfortunately, it ended up not being a great fit for this season. Each day offers a passage from one of Shakespeare's plays or poems, and while Esiri does attempt to give a little explanation for the passage, Shakespeare's work is so much more powerful in context. The girls were excited to revisit passages from plays we've studied, but since we've only read ten of his plays together, there were many passages that they didn't have any context for. Each day has a small excerpt from a famous Shakespeare play or poem which makes it enjoyable and not overwhelming.

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The changing of seasons often signals a changing of gear for Shakespeare, and the transition from summer to winter brings as much foreboding as the summer’s return after winter brings hope. His characters and their imaginary landscape move in perfect synchronicity. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, muses on the transience of joy in terms of the fleeting seasons, as he prepares for his wife’s departure – she has been banished for engaging in witchcraft in an attempt to put her husband on the throne. S Magazine - Sunday Express Experience tells me that the best book presents are sentimental or serendipitous. Having a poem to read every day sweetened the passing of time, and with its hoard of immortal wisdom, the collection was a handrail to hold onto whenever I felt wobbly.Beautifully produced, this is something to wallow in. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year does precisely what it says on the tin; three hundred and sixty five extracts from Shakespeare for every day of the year. It cover "sonnets, soliloquies, quotes and extracts" and rather delightfully pairs these with a little note of introduction for the relevant time of the year. So, for example, February 14th sees sonnet 29 "When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes" and a paragraph talking about how Valentine's Day was handled in Shakespeare's, er, day. April 1st sees a witty extract from As You Like It whilst November 5th sees Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss their plot to bring down the King. This is the perfect book if you find Shakespeare and the language overwhelming. It would be ideal for high schoolers and university students, studying literature.

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We loved Esiri's Poem for Every Day of the Year and Poem for Every Night of the Year, and we're huge Shakespeare fans, so we were all excited for Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year. Esiri has compiled a year's worth of readings from Shakespeare's canon. Along with the reading, she provides further informative text about the writing and the significance for each day. At the end of the book, she provides a synopsis of each of Shakespeare's works along with citations for when each is quoted in the book as well as an historical timeline. I got this book from good reads first reads. It has been most enjoyable having a little Shakespeare every day. The selected passages are not too long and the front runner asides before each were also enjoyable. It is fun to see the seasons through the different days and works. A good selection. She has hosted poetry events at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, The Sunday Times Festival of Education and The Oldie Soho Literary Festival.By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU.

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From Allie Esiri, editor of the bestselling A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, comes this beautiful gift anthology of Shakespeare's works. Her iF Poems app was launched to great acclaim in November 2011 and was the Apple Editors' Choice All Time Favourite app. She has compiled several volumes of poetry anthologies, including iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility, The Love Book, A Poem for Every Night of the Year and A Poem for Every Day of the Year.

What a wonderful way to fill your life with Shakespeare! In Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, you get a new quote from Shakespeare a day - obviously. Some correlate to the day itself Of course March 15th would not be complete with the quote "beware the Ides of March," but other days are filled with delightful bits of prose that are not as well known but equally perfect none the less. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is perfect for reading or sharing and brings you Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved classics alongside lesser known extracts. Esiri’s entertaining and insightful thoughts on each entry will fill your year with wonder, laughter, wisdom and wit.