Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare

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• stew-j · Aug 20, 2022 · Recommends

  …Esperanto booth in the language arts faire we took a field trip to and said, "I don't know why that booth is always so disappointingly unattended." I guess "ain't much changed", right? I recommend "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" if you haven't read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Guide_to_Shakespear... and maybe we should both just continue to choose "to be" rather than "not to be". [edit] I was talking this…

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• AlbertCory · Jun 22, 2023 · Mentions

  Favorite quote by Azimov: He was on some talk show, and the host asked why he wrote Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare: aren't there already thousands of books about Shakespeare? He said, "Yeah, but not by me."

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• ncmncm · Mar 9, 2021 · Mentions

  Sigh. Isaac Asimov was willing to write about anything at all, whether he understood it or not. As a teen I read Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Asimov's Guide to Humor, and a good fraction of the other 200 books he had published up to then. He more than doubled that number before he died. He was careful about his facts, though he had a policy…

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• hugh · Jul 3, 2008 · Mentions

  Funnily enough, I was reading Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare last night, and thinking how great it was to have literature explained by a man with a clear scientific mind instead of a mushy literary one. Unfortunately, the Asimovs of this world are few and far…

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• handrous · Dec 6, 2021 · Mentions

  …grasp what's going on, while someone with a good understanding of feudal politics (or anyone who's played much Crusader Kings) will be going "oh shit, this is really bad". This is where something like Asimov's guide to Shakespeare, or any number of free online lectures about the plays, can be helpful. As for what's great: 1) Masterful plotting, leaving just enough up to the audience to figure out (and, more often than not, leveraging…

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• AlbertCory · Nov 6, 2022 · Mentions

  Isaac Asimov wrote "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" and some talk show host asked him "Why did you write this? There are thousands of books about Shakespeare!" He said, "Yeah, but not by me."

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• owyn · Sep 24, 2024 · Mentions

  I was looking at my parent's bookshelf and saw a book on Shakespeare and I recognized the author's name: Asimov! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov's_Guide_to_Shakespeare It's like 800 pages, I haven't read it but I think I'll keep that one. Seems like it might be hard to find another physical copy. He was definitely prolific on a number of topics.

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