Michael Macrone
Author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
About the Author
Michael Macrone, Ph.D. is the author of seven previous books on language and literature. He lives in San Francisco, where he writes and creates Web sites
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Works by Michael Macrone
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- Birthdate
- 1960-08-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Oakland, California, USA
- Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley
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Reviews
Brush Up Your Shakespeare! by Michael Macrone
A fun book, reminding one of favorite (and barely remembered) lines in Shakespeare. It is a bit disappointing to find out which ones weren't actually original to him, but there are enough of his to be quite uplifting. Some of the quotes the author uses are not actually part of everyday language in any world I live in, so their choice was perhaps odd, but it was sort of fun reading about those lines, too. He also discusses lines that are commonly misquoted, but why he didn't include the line "Lay on, McDuff" as being quoted...or rather, misquoted...a lot is Greek to me.… (more)
Shallow and typos and factual errors and lazy writing. The one factual error that I'll note that I can remember: "the dogs of war" is from Henry V, not from Julius Caesar.
I don't remember reading this before today. I certainly understood more of it than I would have twenty years ago if that's when I read it. The author speaks clearly, but with a bit of tongue in cheek, the kind of literary criticism I need to understand something as foreign to me as poetry.
I would rate this book just ok. A wide selection of topics, but not enough information on any given subject to really satisfy the reader.
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