Profile and The Globe produce Shakespeare 'Guide'

Profile Books is joining forces with Shakespeare’s Globe to celebrate the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016.   In March next year, Profile will publish a revised edition of Andrew Dickson’s The Rough Guide to Shakespeare (Rough Guides), titled The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the poems, the life, with Shakespeare’s Globe. The book includes accounts, critical commentaries and reviews of noted productions and will be published as a £19.99 Crown Quarto paperback. World rights were acquired from Sarah Chalfant at Wylie. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]

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