Books written by Laurie Maguire

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  Shakespeare's Names

  This is a question which goes as far back as Plato and can still be seen in contemporary society with books of Names to Give Your Baby or Reader's Digest columns of apt names and professions.

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  Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood

  Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day.

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  How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays

  One new and surprisingly illuminating way to think about Shakespeare's plays is through his interest in animals, his often intensely felt animal imagery, and what we can call “animalities” – the qualities of character, mentality, ...

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  Where There's A Will There's A Way: Or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Shakespeare

  To read Shakespeare is to understand what it means to be human. To read Where There's a Will There's a Way is to better understand how to deal with it.

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  Where There's a Will There's a Way

  Many of the problems we have been examining in this book are problems of excess. Loving too much, like Helen or Othello (“one that loved not wisely but too well”); having too much anger (like Hotspur or Iago); speaking too much (like ...

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  Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays

  If the second half of the trick is excessive, it is because Twelfth Night is peopled by characters who behave excessively. At one extreme we have Sir Toby's excessive revelry (in a house of mourning!); at the other extreme we have the ...

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  30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

  Offering a highly engaging narrative, 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare covers the big issues that excite the popular imagination around the man, the theater, and the texts of Shakespeare.

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  Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays

  Hartwig, Joan 1982: “Horses and Women in The Taming of the Shrew.” Huntington Library Quarterly 44, ... the Shrew. Hirsch, James E. 1986: “An Approach through Dramatic Structure.” In Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's “King Lear.