What on Earth? Quizbook of Shakespeare (What on Earth Quizbook Series) - Hardcover

The What on Earth? Wallbook of Shakespeare (Mini Edition) is about the size of a desktop diary but illustrates the complete plays of Shakespeare (all 38 of them) on a 1.3m long fold-out timeline set in the iconic Globe Theatre. Each play contains a succinct plot summary, a cast of main characters, three dramatic moments during which the main plot unfolds and famous quotes. Beneath a timeline features key moments during the life and times of William Shakespeare. The backside hosts a multiple-choice family quiz and crossword with the answers all to be found somewhere on the timeline with the aid of a special magnifier (included).

Dr Nick Walton is Shakespeare Courses Development Manager at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, where he devises and delivers programmes of study for school and university students, as well as for members of the general public. Nick obtained his MA and PhD from the Shakespeare Institute, and has taught at the Universities of Warwick and Reading. As Executive Secretary to the International Shakespeare Association he helped organise the Eighth and Ninth World Shakespeare Congresses in Brisbane (2006) and Prague (2011) respectively. He regularly reviews Shakespearian productions and publications, and he has written introductory material for the Penguin editions of Timon of Athens and Love s Labour s Lost, as well as contributing a chapter on Glen Byam Shaw to the book Director s Shakespeare, and an entry in the forthcoming Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia on Shakespeare Societies. Nick works closely with The Royal Shakespeare Company and in 2009 recorded a stage history of Hamlet for the BBC. He has performed in Shakespeare s plays on stage and screen, and was invited in 2010 to Boston USA to deliver lectures and workshops to run alongside the Actors Shakespeare Project s production of Timon of Athens. He returned to Boston in 2012 to work with Tina Packer on her production of Troilus and Cressida for the same company. Nick has been a guest speaker at the British Museum, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, the Athenaeum in Boston, and the National Theatre, London. His passion for Shakespeare has led to invitations to speak on all matters Shakespearian in Budapest, Indiana, Kentucky, and Florida.