Shakespeare Guide to Italy

<p><strong>Exciting original and convincing. . . . This book is essential reading for all concerned with who really wrote the works of Shakespeare. A thrilling journey of discovery. --Sir Derek Jacobi Shakespearean actor Associate Artist Royal Shakespeare Company</strong></p><p>Equal parts literary detective story and vivid travelogue <em>The Shakespeare Guide to Italy</em><strong> </strong>chronicles author Richard Paul Roe's thirty-year quest to find the locations in which Shakespeare set his ten Italian plays--delivering a text which will forever change our understanding of how to read the Bard of Avon and irrevocably alter our vision of who William Shakespeare really was. </p><p>More than 150 images illustrate and enhance Roe's captivating narrative illuminating his lifelong journey and shining a light into the depths of Shakespeare's experiences in Italy. Until now Shakespeare's use of Italian backdrops--<em>Romeo and Juliet</em>'s Verona <em>Othello</em>'s Venice <em>Much Ado About Nothing</em>'s Messina to name a few--has been the source of controversy and conjecture. With <em>The Shakespeare Guide to Italy</em> Roe's meticulous study reveals the secrets that have eluded scholars for centuries.</p>