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The Shakespeare Companion (The Companion Series)
The Shakespeare Companion - The Companion Series Author:Rhiannon Guy, Emma Jones Within these pages are hundreds of facts and stories about the Bard of Avon. Discover, for example, the ongoing quest to translate his entire works into Klingon. Here, too, are memorable extracts from literature, with Charles Dickens soliloquizing with Philip Roth while Jane Austen struts the boards with Aldous Huxley.Ever wonder what happens to... more » the 36,000 tennis balls used at the annual Wimbledon championships? Or what was on the menu at Henry IV's coronation? Would you like to know how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack? Or how to say hello in 20 different languages? The delightfully eclectic, exceedingly collectable Companion Series volumes are bursting with useful trivia and quirky facts to amuse and amaze. Pleasingly designed, eminently browsable, downright addictive.« less