Climbing Steep Literary Hills at a Slow Pace: A Normal Person's Guide to Shakespeare

Shakespeare. Classic literature. What image does your mind conjure up in response to those daunting words? Quaking fear? Hives? Crushing boredom? Do you harken back to musty cobweb-adorned memories of high school AP English? Are you recalling your panic days of college trying to find a way to finish that essential impossible paper thinking This professor really HAS TO give me an extension? A friend recently told me that he never read classic literature even in the times when he was required to read classic literature. The venerable William F. Buckley defined classic literature as something that everyone wished to have read but that no one wanted to read. Oh my! My response to classic literature is different. I find that reading classics is enjoyable and I want folks to share my enjoyment of Shakespeare. How? The summaries and plays within this book comprise fifteen of the best works of the greatest author - Shakespeare. I have rewritten and constructed them however in such a way that they might be seen as understandable not overly time-consuming mostly contemporary and yes dare I say it - fun. Classic literature can be fun. Shakespeare? Fun? Contemplate THAT for a moment will you?