Evoking (and forgetting!) Shakespeare (Dramatic Contexts)

This is a lively, compact and sensical conference on Brooks basics for the Shakespeare experience... it's a great door entrance for his works... after this book, it is worth to try with "The Empty Space" and "The Quality of Mercy" to make your happiness complete...

even if you are not into acting, this is a brilliant book - it is very short but so succinct and full of knowledge! well worth the money.

Beware here - you are not buying a book but a transcription of talk. One reviewer here said it was an hour's read. Now I know I am a fast reader but it took me 10 minutes. If you want a really good work written by a director of much experience who has some extraordinary insight to offer on Shakespeare - go with Michael Bogdanov's Shakespeare: the Director's Cut. It is an infinitely better work that practical directors and actors will find of real use. As for one reviewer's comparison of this book and Bloom's Invention of the Human, I can only say that not only will Bloom's book give you many more hours of pleasurable reading, it will also offer some insight that this talk only hints at in the most general way. A disappointment.